Bloc Party - 'Hunting For Witches'
For all of their intellectual rigour and punk-funk party backbone, there remains something very austere, unfriendly and alien about Bloc Party's music. It's partly Kele's wounded squeak, partly his almost-profound, try-too-hard lyrics, and partly the deliberate ghostly aura the band carry around with them, like their own personal raincloud.
Silly really, cos the twiddle-finger robotic riffs that the band specialise in - and this song contains a doozy - are just the kind of brash, snotty, melodic, attention-demanding fretwork that ears just can't get enough of. Certainly Bloc's axe-attack is up there with that of those Arctic Monkeys, and no-one thinks THEY'RE unfriendly, do they?
Mind you, calling a song 'Hunting For Witches' and then putting your lyrical self into the persona of a fear-addled nation is probably not going to encourage Tom Jones to mutilate/maim/kill cover your song at the next Diana tribute concert, so it's not like the band don't know what they're doing.
And, to prod what seems to be an increasingly angry-looking conversational bruise for no reason other than sheer devilment, surely a song by a guitar band in skinny jeans...who have floppy Beatle-fringe hair (on SOME of the band members) and look dead angsty and upset...about how the Daily Mail likes to scare people into forming vigilante gangs...featuring a highly-literate singer with a high, soft voice...well doesn't that all sound a bit, y'know....EMO?
*Runs To Hills. Hides Forever*
Download: Out now
CD Released: July 9th
(Fraser McAlpine)
Comments
'runs to hills'......do you know how many people are gonna end up with run to the hills by iron maiden in their heads after reading that!? good song though....'emo' humph
I love Bloc Party.. I know they seem alien tio some people but they are lovely and amazing. (what a combination!) Love this song (kinda topical ain't it?)and I don't think it has gotten alot of air play on Radio one.
whassamatter, Fraymond.. not feeling like you're getting enough angry comments anymore? :P
This song is just bleh.. there's not enough in it to give it an edge.
Who's fraymond?...Am I missing something here?
[It's my occasional nickname, don't worry Duppy, Kat's not talking to herself...much... - Fraser]
Oh, Thanks for clearing that up fraymond!
There always seems to be someone out there feeling the NEED to reduce the emotional emphasis bloc party put into their work, i can't imagine another band as good... and as for emo, we all know emo bands are IN at the moment! RIGHT!!!
There always seems to be someone out there feeling the NEED to reduce the emotional empahasis bloc party put into their work, i can't imagine another band as good... and as for emo, we all know emo bands are IN at the moment! RIGHT!!!
Kerri...?
If I talk to myself, Fraymond, it's only because what I have to say is of too high a caliber of intelligence for anyone else to understand ;)
kat...?
yes youre about right there :)
Kerri, it's as if you'd never gone away!
(I'm not complaining, but you must have still got quite a lot of Australia to experience?!)
Bloc Party being EMO? Hmm, I don't think a band that is singing about the political and government faults of Britain should be known as Emo. Most of the depressed "Emo" bands are often writing about love and death, unlike Bloc.
i do still have alot to do here, but moments like now (when its dark and my friend is in the bath or whatever) when i get to use the comp for 20 mins to check my emails i also use the time to check lovely old CB :D
[Aww...well we're all missing you...as much as we CAN with you still putting comments up, obv! - Fraser]
awww thanks fraser, CB is like an everyday part of my life at home now (is that sad? :S) so i like to keep up to date atleast whilst im not in rainy old england.
oh and btw the time of this posting is 5.25 pm not 10.25 am as it is at home (i think)
[CB should be part of EVERYONE'S life in this way. In many ways we're the sixth emergency service. Pop Patrol! - Fraser]
your clock is late, unless the comments have the ability to go back in time to 6 minutes before they were actually posted (im working in GMT here)
[GEEEEEEEK! GEEEEEEEK! - Fraser]
yeah, and?? your point is what exactly?? :P
i suppose i have geeky elements, like that, but im not a geek in the "i LOVE school and teachers" etc way
i am who i am, and i like who i am
Was just checking it was you :P
Lol @ pop patrol, Fraser... God I wish that was an actual thing... you could call 'em up when your friend's music taste started to slip into ned choones or something equally crazy.. yay fun!!
I'm back in th Scotland now.. no rain but it's DAMN COLD! :( Wanna go back to 'merica *sob*
did the goblins gobble the comment i posted a bit ago?? :'(
[Don't think so. Was it the one about you being who you are? - Fraser]
This Track's Useless! Why can't Bloc Party put nice loud guitar-work like they did in Helicopter in any new tracks?