Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke broke the news a few months back during a chat with Triple J that the band had begun recording a new album. The London indie rockers have now shared the first teaser for the upcoming LP in a new trailer that is absolutely horrifying.
Readers can check out the seriously disturbing 23-second clip below, which features several shots of the band’s studio, including equipment held therein, accompanied by some mysterious piano music, before switching abruptly to a shot of a graveyard that will henceforth haunt your dreams.
Besides a few impending nightmares, the clip didn’t give much else away. Kele, meanwhile, told previously told Veronica & Lewis that he had “about 18 [song] ideas” and that the full-length follow-up to 2012’s Four is “sounding like nothing that we’ve ever done before.”
“I feel that this record is an evolution of where we were,” the frontman continued. “So far, there’s nothing really that I can compare it to in terms of other musicians where as in the past I could… This is very much our own record.”
The frontman was also nice enough to offer Aussie listeners an acoustic preview of a new work-in-progress titled ‘Exes’, which will presumably appear on the forthcoming album. However, ‘Exes’ is so far the only new album track that the band has shared with fans.
Right now, the question looming over Bloc Party is just who is in the band. With drummer Matt Tong having departed last year and bassist Gordon Moakes confirming his egress earlier this year in order to focus on his new project, Young Legionnaire, Bloc Party is down to just two original members.
According to Triple J, guitarist Russell Lissack was recently photographed in the recording studio, but it’s unknown if the other half of the band has been replaced or if the group is now operating as a duo. Guess we’ll have to wait for the band’s headlining performance at FYF Fest in LA this August to find out.
Posted by Bloc Party on Tuesday, May 26, 2015
