Indie rock icons Bloc Party have revealed that they’ll be releasing their fourth studio album later this year – following their incident which involved false rumours about frontman Kele Okereke splitting from the band.
The band have been working on new material in New York, but only revealed to Zane Lowe today that they’d be putting the record out in 2012. It will be the band’s first LP since 2008’s ‘Intimacy’.
Okereke had last year told the NME that he had been left out in the cold by the band, and that he had even seen the rest of his bandmates entering a recording studio without telling him – sparking massive rumours that the band would be parting ways with their vocalist.
These rumours were reinforced when he once again came forward to tell the magazine that the band had been auditioning new singers while Okereke had been working on his solo career.
But, soon after, the band went back on the statements – until finally, Zane Lowe rang the band’s management, who confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the band and there would be no split – tweeting: “"Bloc Party thing is nonsense. Management confirm it. Solid... solid as a rrrrock.”
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