
- 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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Lord, give me grace and dancing feet And the power to impress Lord, give me grace and dancing feet Let me outshine the moon Is it so wrong to crave... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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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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It's smart, strange, just different enough from its predecessor, and, eventually, absolutely stunning.
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A Weekend in the City showcases what all the band's initial buzz was about, but twists and filters what might have been expected, leaving them open to praise for different reasons.
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The real achievement of 'A Weekend In The City' is its path to this conclusion, pulling hard-won moments of contentment from a maelstrom of anger and confusion.
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The 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.
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There's barely a song that isn't kneecapped by one of Okereke's lyrical clangers.
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The second half of the album falls into a malaise as tempos slow and arrangements become more orthodox, placing Bloc Party closer to Coldplay than one would have thought possible two years ago.
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The direction in which Bloc Party has traveled is entirely unsuited to its strengths.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 115 out of 208
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Mixed: 25 out of 208
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Negative: 68 out of 208
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Mar 25, 2017
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evanFeb 12, 2007I love it, every second
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CyroneNov 30, 2007
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JohnBFeb 5, 2007
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Mar 25, 2021
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MaxCFeb 8, 2007Just two songs are good in this record, Hunting for the Witches and On, the rest is rubbish.
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MarkWFeb 7, 2007The worst album of the year, Bloc Party turns to a Emo band now, unfortunately.
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