/>
musicOMH
home / features / albums / live / classical / blog
Facebook Twitter
search:

Bloc Party - Mercury (Wichita)

UK release date: 11 August 2008
Bloc Party - Mercury

buy this title


buy music
It seems like it was only yesterday when Kele Okereke and co chopped, sliced, dazzled and outshone with their last album. It looks like the chief item on the party's manifesto is to keep up their reputation as one of the UK's most critically acclaimed bands. Certainly, the prospect of a new album has me drooling in expectation, even if the dust has yet to gather on the last one.

Mercury sees the band leaning further towards their dance influences, while lyrically treading the same distopian ground as A Weekend In The City. Like all their other work, it's highly individual and challenging and takes a couple of listens to truly bed in.

As a hint of what's to come it's certainly tantalising and memorable, but it also feels a little over produced in places. The inclusion of some intrusive horns throughout the track is a little distracting and may have you longing for the more visceral raw sound of Silent Alarm.

But what the hell - they still knock everyone else into submission (are you reading this John Lydon?) and this track continues to confirm their status as one of our most relevant and vital national treasures. It seems that the temperature is going to rise further before the party's done.


Comments






TOP ARTICLES NOW
RELATED ARTICLES
ALBUM: Bloc Party - Four
ALBUM: Bloc Party - Intimacy
ALBUM: Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
ALBUM: Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Remixed
ALBUM: Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
GIG: Bloc Party @ Corn Exchange, Cambridge
GIG: Bloc Party @ Forum, London
GIG: Bloc Party @ O2 Arena, London
GIG: Bloc Party @ Roundhouse, London
GIG: Bloc Party @ Octagon, Sheffield
GIG: Bloc Party @ Royal Albert Hall, London
GIG: Bloc Party @ Brixton Academy, London
GIG: Bloc Party @ Somerset House, London
GIG: Bloc Party @ Academy 3, Manchester
GIG: Bloc Party @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
VIDEO: Bloc Party - The Prayer
VIDEO: Bloc Party - Two More Years
TRACK: Bloc Party - Talons
TRACK: Bloc Party - Mercury
TRACK: Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches
TRACK: Bloc Party - I Still Remember
TRACK: Bloc Party - The Prayer
TRACK: Bloc Party - Two More Years
TRACK: Bloc Party - Pioneers
EXTERNAL LINKS
Bloc Party


  more track reviews...