Kele from Bloc Party drops into Radio 1

[VivaLaMente]

That weird ostritch noise he makes around the 0:22 mark makes me laugh ^^

[hurleypwell]

i love bloc party so much and prety much every1 of their songs but......i jst cant listen to mercury,sorry :(

[telex13]

pretty much all bands leak things out to journalists or radio broadcasters. so not sure bout the kid a thing. if meaning they wrote a bunch of lyrics and threw them into a hat and drew out what each succeeding line would be, then yeah that would be like kid a.

[jberecob]

They can change but not to this.

You can make a different kind of music but honestly, this is a great shit. Not good enough even for electronic music!

[blankpapers]

so they're trying to pull off a kid a...

[kloot101]

i read that the good way.

[blankpapers]

i was saying it in a good way:)

[deannuts69]

love bloc partys silent alarm an weekend in the city n songs like staying fat the answer an flux, at 1st hear i didnt like mercury bt now i do its jus a lil different bt its good keep it up can wait to see them play live 1 pf my fav bands :)

[mintymikey23]

sounds like they're jus experimenting which is pretty cool

[rhystylerjones]

Mercury is a brilliant piece of music and I'm glad they're leaning towards a more electronic sound and willing to experiment more. Indie has become pure pop music and I'm sick to the back teeth of most of the bands out there now. Music should be all about doing something different, not rehashing the same ideas. I just hope the album's in a similar style to this.

[Paddypaddy50]

i seriously love this song! just because its not like the silent alarm stuff people are saying its crap! we should be glad of the fact that bloc party can go to a whole different style of music and still be this amazing :D

[redcherrytomato]

look how nervous kele is at the end of the video - he's going to bite his nails as zane's starting the track!

[calumisdead]

How has this got more views than the actual music video?

[THeEraSerr]

it hasn't now

[GardenOfEros]

Seriously...it is a good song I don't know why everybody is complaining.

[bagwhanbill]

bp rocks cHeers

[olilok]

brillant!!!

[jycdeep]

give this song a chance. it gets better and better the more you hear it. At least there doing new and diff stuff un like losers like U2 & Oasis. Stop being haters

[blgmobby]

I don't like this at all. Sorry bloc, but I've got to say I really don't like it...I thought the new album was supposed to sound like silent alarm but with more experience....this is not that. Different? Yes. Good? Not really.

[Ltjrevival]

Exactly, a million people agree with me that Banquet and Helicopter are so good and now they made this shitty song

[ferchoxxx19]

FLUX FUCKING BETTER!!

[brodyeburne]

i am a bloc party fan gordon moakes even used to go to my school, but this song is a piece of SHIT compared to helicopter and banquet

[Antoin16]

brilliant track

[dizzinicol]

one word fucking awsome...ow no wait thats two....

kele rocks all bloc party tunes are immense in one way or another and mecury is no exception!!!!! bring on reading 2008 cant wait to jump up and down to that shit!!!!

[henreque]

yeah when this was first played i was like "oh dear..." then 3 listens later i love it, their new album is out late winter 2008/spring 2009 ;)

[SHACKSERS]

I think everything they do is brilliant havnt made a bad record yet in my opinion and just from this song you can tell the next album is gonna be sumin special

[OllieThomas2008]

terrible song. horrible repetitive vocal.

[Nerd00007]

bloc party is the best band and will die as the best band.

[samfancypants]

'...piss poor any bloc fan would say so' are you serious?? what kind of a 'fan' thinks that the band that they allegedly are a fan of is crap? get a new band. leave bloc party alone, they don't make music for you, and they are brilliant. aren't they allowed to experiment? change styles? evolve? just keep listening to one album for the rest of your life and let everyone else enjoy bands as they used to be and how they are changing. really.

[johnarchy18]

exactly! *thumbs up*

[Slipcubusknight]

I'm all for change, but this is in the wrong direction. Don't get me wrong because they're one of my favorite bands, but this just isn't that good. It is VERY repetitive and it doesn't even use the whole band! It seems like ever since they got the micro korg they've been going downhill. That's just my opinion though. Flux is way better than this, but still not that great.

[rohanvonneoray]

It's just one song, there'll be a whole album of gems.

[boatmonkey3]

silent alarm was so fucking good.

[gobarcelo]

is strange, no worse or best that the others. but I like it for now. Anyway I prefer that the next album won't be overcharged of electronic

[spaceorgysyndicate]

i like their new song a lot, i mean i hope some the other songs they're making arent completely like electronicish, but i still like this

[Noahspy]

:/ wat a load of shit this song is. silent alarm was the best, A Weekend in the City was piss poor any bloc fan would say so and this song is so shit they should just stop. Well done NME u killd off another band

[johnarchy18]

you're an idiot.

[Noahspy]

y? I like bloc party but that new song is shite, Ive seen them 3 times live and theyve only got worse its annoyin bec they used to be so good just shows wat popularity does.

[Slipcubusknight]

I have to disagree with you about AWITC. I didn't like that album because it wasn't like silent alarm, but i realized it was amazing! The songs are written perfectly! But i agree about this song, i really don't like it. It's sooo repetitive it's ridiculous. What happened to the rest of the band? They aren't doing anything on this song!

[calumisdead]

Im pretty sure that isnt a drum machine in there.

[wogitywogitywogi]

wow, this is bad, bad news.

[gungrave515]

i like how they stay true to their style.

yet keep adding outside genre influence.

the hip hop influence in here is grand.

[nataku333]

love the new electronica stuff, and its about time we here some stuff from the new album.

[jasonakagary]

can imagine it'll be awesome live plenty of energy

a distinct lack of guitar work tho :/

[jasonakagary]

can imagine it'll be awesome live plenty of energy

distint lack of guitar work though :/

[InSanESk]

the song is awesome O_O so fucking different from the other albums

especially the effects.. omg!! *-* so stunning °.°

[benwesthead]

Its a good song and will be even better live when its going crazy, you can't say the music is getting worse if there trying new stuff and havn't even dropped the album yet

[bbruciferr]

i love bloc party, but this is an upset.

[NTWProductions]

The B-sides to Weekend were awesome. Then what happened? I liked Flux but this? Sounds like something I could make with Fruity Loops.

[stephlom]

they were** sorry for the grammar mistake lol

[stephlom]

i love bloc party and there were fantastic live, i agree tho with thegaxman, i liked flux but i wouldnt mad about this song, their rock stuff is far better!

[Ashinaround]

Ahhh finally Bloc Party is back. Awesome keep up with the dance theme Kele and co.

[esenbi]

i kinda like the fact they're trying new shit.. and this song really reminds me of Bjork, which is an Awesome thing.. so, i guess it's not their best, but i liked where it's heading.

[thegaxman]

Great band, but I'm not into this techno shift. Flux was ok, but this song not so much. The only rock band who sort of pulled off the techno thing was U2 and bloc party is not in that realm yet.

[VinceFS]

Their music is getting progressively worse.

[cammydude144]

sweet i have the same t shirt as him :)

block party are awesome :D

[blackfox51]

i think they're trying to pull a Kid A on us...

Their albums are really starting to resemble a Radiohead timeline

Silent Alarm=The Bends

A Weekend in the City=OK Computer

Third album=Kid A? (Looks like it, due to the National Anthem sounding Mercury)

[freezegelman]

i completely agree. i thought of national anthem too with the brass/ trumpet parts. but this song can't even touch national anthem.

[blackfox51]

true, but I pray that this new album is either prolonged or revised, b/c I think they're trying to be too much like their influences

I dunno if it's me, but it looks like Kele has near superior power to the other members in the song writing/composing process

I truly wish they go back to the Silent Alarm days, reliable guitar rock

[Jackaryah]

their worst song to date.

[mindphlux]

its a little different, yet

[podolski1760]

awsome

[ferchoxxx19]

mercury, me-me-mer cury,me-me-mer cury, T_T miss BLOC PARTY!

[JoeyEdwardesEvans]

ahhhh!! that second text is ME!!!

[ballistic12348]

i prefer banquet lol

[shokk13]

where the fuck is the song :O kele = babe

[ballistic12348]

damn

[ferchoxxx19]

WTF!!!! FUCKING SHIT!

[QuiteKikkoman]

Sorry, the song was pish poor. Bloc Party still rock, though :)

[timaaaahhhh]

terrible

[IndieMan3]

w00t, mercury was amazing...

Bloc Party kick ass!

[rayescapes]

o..O'