"We may take a year off, we may take three years off. We may never make a record again or we may head straight back in and do a record.", said lead singer Kele Okereke just after they confirmed that they're going on a hiatus a couple of months ago. So the future doesn't look too bright for the fertile foursome who recently finished a huge UK tour, which ended in Bournemouth.
Drummer Matt Tong has also announced that the band’s future is uncertain, and he don't know if he's going to return to music at all. It has, however been revealed that Okureke is set to work on a solo album which is good news for all us shattered Bloc Party fans out there.
Having produced danceable indie-anthems since 1999, they are one of the most popular indie bands in the UK. With dynamic and hauntingly beautiful lyrics including themes of frustration, anxiety, sex, drugs, love, depression,war,politics, they've managed to reach out to a wide audience of youngsters.
“I am trying to be heroic, in an age of modernity/But in my heart I am lukewarm, nothing really touches me.” "Song For Clay"(Disappear Here)’
"I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire/There must be accountability/Disparate and misinformed/Fear keeps us all in place." (Hunting for witches.)
Why can't you be more European/Bastard child of guilt and shame/Bury your head in the sand. (Helicopter.)
Experimenting with electronic sounds, layering vocals, drum beats, sharp guitars and post-punk, Bloc Party have never been a band that you could pigeon-hole into a specific category musically.
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