Bloc Party - 'She's Hearing Voices' (Trash Aesthetics)
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By: Toby L
Gulp. The inimitable tones of London-ish newcomers Bloc Party's debut-single are the charitable, ringing resonance of instant, thorough, unquestionable genius; an inaugural staple at which to gawp and praise in we're-not-worthy, pleading desperation. In a mere three songs, we have just played jubilant witness to the finest new act of our time.
The hype outta the way, then - a force you'd best get acquainted to now when regarding this lot (yet an asset to disregard righteously, in order to savour the fuller picture later on) - and the music and sound is what we're left with. And what a sound. This is the teeming urgency of ambitious, enlightened youth - summarised only best through the medium of chipping guitars, thunderous drums, precision-timed bass-lines and impassioned vocalist Kele Okereke's inspired yelps and yells.
What results: the whirly, dark panache of intense lead A-side, 'She's Hearing Voices' (...'She's scared of the blacks and she's scared of the Jews/She is always out there, she is yesterday's news...'); the rolling-drum allure of 'The Marshals Are Dead', a track which convulses into a guitar-slashing, late-80s diatribe of two-prong vocal-assaults and ringing, six-string dissonance; and the angelic warbling of a hammering, mildly euphoric 'The Answer'. And, in all, it's f**king blistering - the debut of geeky teens' dreams, and an unleashing of a grandiose, collective foursome whose entwining vision and hatred for suffocating clichι unites in the UK's most engrossing prospect for 2004 yet. And then some. May this mark the beginning of a long-standing, very beautiful relationship.
Artists in this article: Bloc Party
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