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Kele: The Boxer | CD review

(Wichita)Kele Okereke's first solo album begins with a blaring, fuzzy off-beat and the Bloc Party singer starting a military calling cadence: "I don't what you been told/ But this don't stand/ Walk tall, walk tall." We're certainly not in the Kansas of Silent Alarm any more. But then, often at Okereke's behest, Bloc Party had evolved into a quasi-electronic act even before the release of 2008's Intimacy – so the shift to a solo album that takes in sounds more usually found between stations ...

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22:30 on June 17 2010

Kele: The Boxer | CD review

Guardian Music — (Wichita)Kele Okereke's first solo album begins with a blaring, fuzzy off-beat and the Bloc Party singer starting a military calling cadence: "I don't what you been told/... more info

Kele Okereke Bloc Party

12:02 on June 18 2010

New album: Kele – The Boxer

Guardian Music — He's got bigger biceps and bigger beats ... so do you rate the Bloc Party frontman's solo transformation?Kele's dropped his band (and his surname) for debut solo album, T... more info

Kele Okereke Bloc Party