Bloc Party

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Bloc Party is an English indie rock band. In 2005, the band released their critically acclaimed debut album Silent Alarm. Their second studio album, A Weekend In the City was released on February 5, 2007 in the United Kingdom and February 6 in the United States.

Formation and rising popularity (1998–2007)

Bloc Party have been together since 2002, with names such as Superheroes of BMX, The Angel Range, Diet, and Union, before settling on Bloc Party in September 2003. Band members Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack have formed the fulcrum of these various incarnations, and were subsequently joined by bassist Gordon Moakes who answered an advert in the NME, and most recently drummer Matt Tong. Lissack and singer/guitarist Kele Okereke first met in 1998 in Essex, where Lissack had grown up and Okereke attended school. Lissack attended Bancroft’s School and Okereke attended Ilford County High School until 16 then Trinity School for sixth form. They bumped into each other again in 1999 at the Reading Festival and soon after formed the band Union.

In 2003 they changed their name from Union to Bloc Party. The name is a play on block party, a name for an informal neighbourhood festival, which might hire a local band as entertainment. The band have said that the name was not intended to be an allusion to the Soviet Bloc or the Canadian political party Bloc Québécois; the absence of a ‘k’ is purely for aesthetics.

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–	2	Add this track to your playlist Banquet full track	99,257
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Like Eating Glass	88,625
–	4	Add this track to your playlist This Modern Love full track	84,755
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Hunting For Witches	78,583
–	6	Add this track to your playlist Blue Light	78,051
–	7	Add this track to your playlist The Prayer	75,861
–	8	Add this track to your playlist So Here We Are	73,895
–	9	Add this track to your playlist Positive Tension	69,234
–	10	Add this track to your playlist I Still Remember	66,656
–	11	Add this track to your playlist She's Hearing Voices full track	61,427
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–	14	Add this track to your playlist Uniform	52,877
–	15	Add this track to your playlist Pioneers	50,001
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–	18	Add this track to your playlist On	47,777
–	19	Add this track to your playlist Sunday	47,239
–	20	Add this track to your playlist Song For Clay (Disappear Here)	46,587
–	21	Add this track to your playlist Waiting For The 7.18	42,518
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–	27	Add this track to your playlist Little Thoughts	24,976
–	28	Add this track to your playlist Two More Years full track	24,299
–	29	Add this track to your playlist The Pioneers	22,365
–	30	Add this track to your playlist Where Is Home	18,795
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1	32	Add this track to your playlist Tulips full track	14,187
–	33	Add this track to your playlist The Answer	13,574
–	34	Add this track to your playlist Staying Fat full track	12,103
–	35	Add this track to your playlist So Here We Are (Four Tet Remix)	12,004
–	36	Add this track to your playlist Shes Hearing Voices	10,314
–	37	Add this track to your playlist Waiting For The 7:18	9,990
–	38	Add this track to your playlist SXRT	9,276
1	39	Add this track to your playlist Helicopter (Whitey Version)	9,257
1	40	Add this track to your playlist Always New Depths	9,151
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