What a band's new musical direction really means

After singer Kele Okereke's recent dabblings in dance Bloc Party are about to make an about-turn. But how seriously should we take a band's new direction?Bloc Party are back with Four, ditching their previous dabbles with dance music in favour of throwing rock shapes. But what is a band really telling us when they try to justify a drastic shift in genre?WHAT THEY SAY "We've gone for a bigger, more cinematic sound." WHAT THEY MEAN "Our bassist, Brick, wasn't happy about the 'poppers o'clock' dire...

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