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Bloc Party Explain Influences Of New Album |
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Written by Stereoboard.com
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Friday, 12 May 2006 |
 Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke has been explaining some of the influences behind their forthcoming second album.
The frontman says the album will show an angrier side of the band, with the July 7 terrorist attacks in London and the medias reaction with Anti-Muslim sentiment, being the driving theme of the album.
He told Rolling Stone: "I was really disgusted by the reaction in the mainstream press. It seemed to become an anti-Muslim, xenophobic thing, and that started me thinking. "That feeling of futility is one of the main themes of the record." He also talked again about the directional change on the new album, which helped produce a more mature sound.
He said: "Everything (on 'Silent Alarm') is quite furious-sounding, and a lot of that was due to being 20 and having lots of questions, lots of energy and not really knowing how to focus it. "Now I'm at a very different stage with my life. There's still aggression, I guess, and intensity - but it's a very different kind."
"It's not quite so jerky," he added. "But it's not like Coldplay either. It's still us."
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