Your Mix Tape, Track 7
If you're listening to something else other than Bloc Party, you're wasting your time. And, if you've been listening to Bloc Party already -- that energetic, "unpigeonholeable," intelligent Brit band incorrectly lumped in with The Strokes and (ugh) The Killers -- well, you must know why Bloc Party's Silent Alarm is the best album of 2005.
All the emotions: guilt, remorse, happiness, anger, hatred; and, all the themes: love, hate, boredom, manipulation, are transferred efficiently through louder-than-usual drums and manic bass riffs that are invigorated with Kele Okereke's frantic, pulsating vocals. You can't listen to this stuff below eight.
In "Like Eating Glass," you have:
I can't eat, I can't sleepin Radiohead-like angst in a relentless, Breeders-like march. Listen.
I can't sleep, I can't dream
An aversion to light
Got a fear of the oceanLike drinking poison, like eating glass
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Oh The Killers... I remember when they were just this local band from my old stomping ground Las Vegas, and their bass player was this part-timer from work... They should've taken a cue from Kelly Clarkson and released an album right at the heels of their debut because that's the only way they'll survive, in my opinion.
Bloc Party rocks!
Caramello,
If you don't have Silent Alarm yet, you must get it. It's so darn load and vicious.
I wanted to go to Bloc Party but the show sold out in a week (and it was a small venue).
Maybe next time.
H