Defining the Decade: Bloc Party Silent Alarm (2005)

Mid-way through “Positive Tension” Kele Okerele passionately sings “Something glorious is about to happen/a reckoning!” and I’ve often wondered if he knew that the reckoning he was prophetically summoning was the arrival of Silent Alarm, his band’s polarizing debut album.  In 2004, indie rock was embracing a new movement.  It would go by many names, [...]

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