A Weekend In The City
- Bloc Party
- Band Name: Bloc Party
- Record Label: Vice
- Release Date: Feb 6, 2007
- Summary: Kele Okereke & co. try to avoid the sophomore slump with this highly-anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed debut 'Silent Alarm.'
- Record Label: Vice
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 30
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Mixed: 18 out of 30
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Negative: 0 out of 30
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100It's smart, strange, just different enough from its predecessor, and, eventually, absolutely stunning.
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60The album's substantial rewards lie in the unorthodox rhythms of drummer Matt Tong. [Mar 2007, p.102]
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60The psychic bruising Okereke has sustained playing the East London fame game during the past 12 months has produced self-pitying lyrics that frequently state the bleeding obvious.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 118 out of 202
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Mixed: 16 out of 202
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Negative: 68 out of 202
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BrandonA.10
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MusicNut5Doesn't touch Silent Alarm...
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JC3
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