Bloc Party - 'So Here We Are' (Wichita)
5/5
By: Kevin Molloy
Bands like this are the reason for devout fans, for devotional scrawlings on books, desks and websites, nay, for the entire industry.
'So Here We Are' isn't even their best song, but it's still bloody fantastic. Rarely do the ten strings of bass and lead guitars conspire to create such a luscious capsule of dreamy melancholy, with six more to boot eventually catapulting the track into its giddy epiphany. The dizzying heights of Robert Smith's vocal wails are sounded, and the song fades to a stop as the most commercially viable thing Kele and co. have yet produced, without a trace of 'selling out'. Just to cap it all off, the b-side, 'Positive Tension', is a terse, adrenalised dancefloor hit (as rockfeedback wearily proved at the last Basement Club), especially as it leaves its stuttering verse for the arms-aloft rock-out of the chorus.
Bloc Party might even be turning prophetic; as they so rightly point out, 'something glorious is about to happen'. But don't worry about finding a good spot to hear it from... this is but the start of the aural display the coming years have in hold.
Artists in this article: Bloc Party
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