A Weekend In The City by Bloc Party

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Song For Clay (Disappear Here) 4:49 277,006
2 Hunting For Witches 3:30 418,484
3 Waiting For The 7.18 4:15 228,703
4 The Prayer 3:43 399,392
5 Uniform 5:31 279,453
6 On 4:47 259,597
7 Where Is Home? 4:53 247,809
8 Kreuzberg 5:25 268,049
9 I Still Remember 4:20 373,313
10 Flux 3:35 261,245
11 Sunday 4:59 255,584
12 SRXT 4:51 225,789

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Universal Music GmbH (2007) Released: 19 Nov 2007 12 tracks (54:38)
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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  • electrobaboon wrote:
    last month
    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.

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  • alj93 wrote:
    December 2011
    Underrated, in my opinion.

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  • legghiu wrote:
    December 2011
    i think this is my favourite album ever...

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  • samqwe wrote:
    December 2011
    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.

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  • Pafgadget wrote:
    December 2011
    Really bad !

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  • turn_forever wrote:
    November 2011
    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.

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  • katiekatieyay wrote:
    October 2011
    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.

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  • laveyne wrote:
    October 2011
    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.)

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  • turn_forever wrote:
    October 2011
    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.

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  • DannyJC_93 wrote:
    September 2011
    I personally think it's one of their best. It gets you to reflect on things, deeper album than you might first think

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  • hotterthanjuly wrote:
    July 2011
    I will never understand how this received such a mixed response. Equals or betters its predecessor in nearly every regard.

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  • servavilatina wrote:
    June 2011
    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.

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  • kissesneverdie wrote:
    April 2011
    Listened to this album a lot in High School.

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  • aemilie wrote:
    April 2011
    I discovered this album after two years of lying in my comp! What a beautiful feeling!

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  • tomthe74 wrote:
    April 2011
    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]

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  • eating_glass wrote:
    February 2011
    this album is full of cinematic feeling.

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  • Watts13 wrote:
    February 2011
    I never understood why people didn't like this album. I suppose because it's one of those albums that doesn't just immediately hit you like Silent Alarm has and instead takes a bit of time before you really understand how great it is. Then again, I had this one before Silent Alarm back in middle school and I really loved it at the time. SRXT just popped up on shuffle and I'm realizing once again how fantastic this band was.

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  • hotterthanjuly wrote:
    December 2010
    One of the most underrated albums of the last 10 years.

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  • relequel wrote:
    November 2010
    If these 4 guys never met; if they never picked up instruments; probably even if Kele never had mashed potato on that Tuesday when he was 12, I never would've heard this album... But it happened, and my God has it been influential on my life :')

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  • cichywladek wrote:
    October 2010
    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... [4]

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