Indie rock outfit Bloc Party have revealed that there forthcoming new album was almost scrapped, following yesterday’s announcement that the record would be coming out on August 20th.
The band have been working on the new record for around a year, and will be putting it out later this year following a period with few live gigs and appearances. It is the follow-up to their most recent album release 'Intimacy', which came out in 2008, and is their fourth LP to date. But, frontman Kele Okereke has confessed that the album almost didn’t come around at all, and told fans via his blog that there had been a question mark of the future of the band.
“We could have come clean from the get go but to be honest we had no idea if anything was going to come out of these sessions,” Okereke wrote. “There was a big question mark over whether Bloc Party were ever going to make another record again.
“We were exhausted and bored and distant from one another. so in 2010 we all did our own thing, Gordon [Moakes - bass] had a baby, Russell [Lissack - guitar] joined Ash, Matt [Tong - drums] built a studio in his basement with his bare hands and I moved to New York to finish a book that I had been writing for the last 3 years.”
He continued: “Something became clear to me, I needed to put my band back together, I missed my friends. Even though I had made a record by myself I missed the way that my band worked, how little improvisations and suggestions would then go on to spark other ideas in me like wildfire. Being in bloc party always forced me to think on my feet.
“It turns out that everyone had been feeling the same way so we arranged to decamp to New York and start writing our fourth record and in that time it became clear to us that the only reason to be in this band was to make the sort of music that only the four of us could make.”
Bloc Party will be touring the across the UK, the US and mainland Europe this year, so if you're a fan, you'll be able to catch them live in a venue near you. If you need tickets to any of Bloc Party's shows, check the dates and details below.
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