More Info Styled more along the lines of a revolutionary cell than a band, Bloc Party approach the medium of rock'n'roll with the sort of high seriousness usually reserved for philosophy lectures. Yet on their debut album, Silent Alarm, this "autonomous unit" of smart, wiry London youth don't just succeed in reinvigorating the artform they come pretty close to reinventing it from the ground up. Whereas early singles like "She's Hearing Voices" found the band still attempting to chisel their own image out of familiar post-punk reference points The Fall, Joy Division, and Gang Of Four, to name but three newer tracks such as "Like Eating Glass" and the prickly "Price Of Gas" find Bloc Party pioneering a freshly-minted template of staccato percussion, expansive soundscapes, and cryptic lyrics that artfully straddle the political and the personal. Tracklist 1 Like Eating Glass2 Helicopter3 Positive Tension4 Banquet5 Blue Light6 She's Hearing Voices7 This Modern Love8 Pioneers9 Price of Gas10 So Here We Are11 Luno12 Plans13 Compliments
