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Kele Okereke on New Solo Album and Bloc Party’s ‘Silent Alarm’ at 20: ‘It Has Stood the Test of Time’
Bloc Party's Kele Okereke discusses the 20th anniversary of debut album 'Silent Alarm', his latest solo album and upcoming memoir.
3, his new solo album released Jan. 17, Okereke paces around his London home for the duration of our chat, working his mind (and body) while he reflects on an illustrious career in music — one that has never remained in a single place. Then it’s back to Bloc Party to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its beloved 2005 debut album Silent Alarm, which the band will be playing in full across the U.K. at some of its largest outdoor shows to date. A sonic fusion of influences from post-punk to electronica, plus lyrics that touched upon the British government’s disastrous war in Iraq and Afghanistan during the mid-’00s, set the group apart both from chaotic, romantic contemporaries like The Libertines and fashionable, sexy art-school graduates like Franz Ferdinand.
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