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Year :: 2004
Label :: Wichita
Cat No :: Promo
Genre :: Indie
Tracks :: 12
Size :: 73,7 MB
Source :: CDDA
Bitrate :: VBRKBps
Rel. Date :: 08/01/2005
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Bloc Party is an autonomous unit of un-extraordinary
kids reared on pop culture between the years of 1976
and the present day. Like many such kids, between
them they eventually concluded that their own
attempts to imitate what had informed them could be
construed as a worthy variation on the many forms
that preceded. They do everything that's required to
conform to the currently received ideas of what a
band is: ostensibly to play instruments at the same
time, but also have a title for the work created.
Kele picked up a guitar when his hands enabled him to
do so and his brain gave him the inclination. Russell
had already done as much beforehand when they met in
1998. In the fine print of music papers and in
telephone conversations they enabled meetings with
Gordon and Matt who also had ideas of some relevance
to bring to the collective effort. In this sense a
band was created.
Henceforth should follow a list of auteurs and
musicians that figured in the formative minds of the
four as they went about their work. But to do as much
seems churlish in an already self-referential world.
Suffice to say there would be no band without the
efforts of guitar bands formed in British and
American towns in the 70s, 80s and 90s, aswell as
visionary writers and artists of various kinds whose
work has informed the world and culture itself as it
stands. The precise names are as good as any you can
come up with, in fact probably much, much better.
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[01] Banquet [03:20]
[02] Staying Fat [02:26]
[03] She's Hearing Voices [03:32]
[04] The Marshals Are Dead [03:53]
[05] The Answer [04:06]
[06] Banquet (Phones Disco) [05:26]
[07] Little Thoughts [03:30]
[08] Tulips [03:40]
[09] Banquet (Phone Disco Edit) [05:26]
[10] Helicopter [03:44]
[11] Always New Depths [04:59]
[12] Tulips (Minautor Shock Remix) [05:13]
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