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A Weekend In The City by Bloc Party

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Song For Clay (Disappear Here) 4:49 282,490
2 Hunting For Witches 3:30 429,960
3 Waiting For The 7.18 4:15 233,432
4 The Prayer 3:43 406,904
5 Uniform 5:30 284,608
6 On 4:47 264,512
7 Where Is Home? 4:51 252,300
8 Kreuzberg 5:25 273,404
9 I Still Remember 4:20 381,969
10 Flux 3:35 273,621
11 Sunday 4:58 261,003
12 SRXT 4:51 229,981
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About this album

Universal Music Digital Germany (2007) Released: 7 Dec 2007 12 tracks (54:34)
Bloc Party may have arrived in an outbreak of like-minded British bands set upon shooting holes in the Union Jack while knocking out a sharp post-punk soundtrack, but it didn’t take long for the foursome to set itself apart from the pack. Fronted by Nigerian-born singer Kele Okereke, the group’s 2005 debut, Silent Alarm, soared as much on crystal ambition as it did on ridiculously danceable pop melodies. This follow-up is darker, more cluttered, and harder to digest. That doesn’t make it less striking. Exploring themes of racism, terrorism, sexuality, addiction, and death—the usual fodder for a cosmopolitan three-day bender—Weekend in the City is an album that plays to Bloc Party’s strengths: tempo-shifting rhythms, inventive art-rock arrangements, and lyrics that twist and turn on a whim. “The Prayer” and “Uniform” are particular standouts, capturing moments when Okereke lets self-importance fade and majestic beats take charge. —Aidin Vaziri
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  • timmerd

    Very, very underrated

    last month

  • phosgene

    I didnt like this album when it came out - now it's one of my favourites

    March 2012

  • borgy

    they ruined this album by inserting 'Flux' into the track list after 'I Still Remember' & 'Sunday'. That song is ridiculously out of place on this album. What were they thinking. I'm glad i have the original version 'cause it seems like it's out of print now.

    March 2012

  • Silverhawk33

    Unexpected of an album that absolutely blows me away with it's brilliance. It's easily the best album they created and each song is a masterpiece of it's own. It seems very deep and even more darker at parts than the first album. Another thing to mention is the more complex instrumentals and production.

    February 2012

  • electrobaboon

    Love thinking of this as a concept album about all sorts of different people's various weekends in the city. Seriously, listen to each track and you'll find a different person inside it, telling the story of their own weekend. Awesome music, still not as good as Silent Alarm though.

    January 2012

  • alj93

    Underrated, in my opinion.

    December 2011

  • legghiu

    i think this is my favourite album ever...

    December 2011

  • samqwe

    Kreuzberg is gorgeous. A desolate, blown-open nighttime cityscape. [2] Seriously, if you hate Kreuzberg, I don't think you understood the concept of this album at all.

    December 2011

  • Pafgadget

    Really bad !

    December 2011

  • turn_forever

    What! Kreuzberg is gorgeous. A desolate, blown-open nighttime cityscape. For me it's the album's heart, in terms both of the themes and of the window dressing.

    November 2011

  • katiekatieyay

    i never understood the critic's panning of this album because this album to me is so wonderfully crafted in all aspects. really strikes a chord within....like bloc party is taking you on a visit to the grottiest places in london and i love it. kreuzberg...after so many listens still makes me crumble inside.

    October 2011

  • laveyne

    Just get's better and better. Only song I don't like is Kreuzberg. Still compared to other bloc Party albums that's really good.(Only like 4 or 5 songs on both SA and INT.)

    October 2011

  • turn_forever

    Incredible that it's approaching five years since this came out. I [still] remember so vividly sitting in my little room in halls in my first year of uni on a rainy Monday night spinning the LP over and over until like 3am, first on full blast, and then on headphones, with a trip down to the laundrette in bare feet to grab my long-forgotten washing between sides. Now I'm 23 and I have a postgrad and a job. It's terrifying. I loved Silent Alarm back when I was in lower sixth, too, but for me it will always be this album, because of who and where I was and how it felt.to be that and there. It bled all the way out of my musical memory and into my everything memory, so now this album just *is* February 2007.

    October 2011

  • DannyJC_93

    I personally think it's one of their best. It gets you to reflect on things, deeper album than you might first think

    September 2011

  • hotterthanjuly

    I will never understand how this received such a mixed response. Equals or betters its predecessor in nearly every regard.

    July 2011

  • servavilatina

    I spent the majority of my final year in Secondary School listening to Bloc Party. While Silent Alarm might be perceived as their best album, I will always enjoy AWITC that bit more. I love this album for both the music and its association with that time in my life.

    June 2011

  • kissesneverdie

    Listened to this album a lot in High School.

    April 2011

  • aemilie

    I discovered this album after two years of lying in my comp! What a beautiful feeling!

    April 2011

  • tomthe74

    I think I can safely say I will rate this up there with Silent Alarm... I might, dare I say it, like it even more... [5]

    April 2011

  • eating_glass

    this album is full of cinematic feeling.

    February 2011
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