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About This Track
“Flux” is a song by Bloc Party which was released as a single on 12 November 2007. It was produced by Jacknife Lee, along with several other new songs, during the band’s week in the studio after their performances at the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals. The song uses mostly electronic instruments and features vocalist Kele Okereke’s voice manipulated through auto-tune. It was first performed live on 26 September 2007 at Covington’s Madison Theater. CD2 of the set was only released as a free CD through the 14 November 2007 issue of NME. The song peaked at number 8 in the UK chart.
Music video
A music video for the song was directed by director Ace Norton, who has previously directed videos for The Willows, Norah Jones and Death Cab for Cutie. The video was published on NME on 17 October 2007. Like the Beastie Boys music video “Intergalactic”, which it resembles stylistically, it pays homage to Japanese kaiju movies. It shows two giant silver robots falling in love while other monsters and robots destroy the city they are in. The band themselves do not appear in the video.
The video was filmed over two days in Boston with American performance troupe Kaiju Big Battel. Some of the Kaiju (Japanese for ‘strange beast’) characters in the video are the Call-Me-Kevin, Grudyin, Unibouzo, Vegetius, Giii the Space Pirate and Steam-Powered Tentacle Boulder (the newest Kaiju Hero).
B-side - “Emma Kate’s Accident”, “The Once and Future King”, “Where Is Home?”
Released - 12 November 2007 (2007-11-12)
Format - Digital download, CD, 7” vinyl, 12” vinyl
Music video
A music video for the song was directed by director Ace Norton, who has previously directed videos for The Willows, Norah Jones and Death Cab for Cutie. The video was published on NME on 17 October 2007. Like the Beastie Boys music video “Intergalactic”, which it resembles stylistically, it pays homage to Japanese kaiju movies. It shows two giant silver robots falling in love while other monsters and robots destroy the city they are in. The band themselves do not appear in the video.
The video was filmed over two days in Boston with American performance troupe Kaiju Big Battel. Some of the Kaiju (Japanese for ‘strange beast’) characters in the video are the Call-Me-Kevin, Grudyin, Unibouzo, Vegetius, Giii the Space Pirate and Steam-Powered Tentacle Boulder (the newest Kaiju Hero).
B-side - “Emma Kate’s Accident”, “The Once and Future King”, “Where Is Home?”
Released - 12 November 2007 (2007-11-12)
Format - Digital download, CD, 7” vinyl, 12” vinyl
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A Weekend In The City
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Flux EP
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Flux
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Shouts
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shadowsanddusts wrote:
this one always reminds me of the london night life
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JamestheJohnson wrote:
Absolute tune! Neck your beers and dance away!!
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spectracide wrote:
we need to taaaaalk
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Izzysmiles wrote:
We must talk about our problems, we are in a state of Flux.
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Sol3ba22c0nduct wrote:
... Awesome!
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RyanStarkey wrote:
Awesome song, epic video. I especially like the goofy looking man at the beginning playing the keyboard. He is my idol.
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goldwincs wrote:
when music geniuses use autotune, the song will sounds so fcking awesome!
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The_Scientist89 wrote:
i like it like it)
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aquamouth wrote:
I agree...the use of the autotune is not needed. It just interferes with Kele's amazing voice.
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hotterthanjuly wrote:
One of their weakest songs. I don't know why they re-released it as an album track for A Weekend in the City. It's almost completely out of step.
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Goth-mog wrote:
The video for this song is amazing XD!
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The_Scientist89 wrote:
epic epic epic!
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XGT wrote:
perfect song to dance to
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peter101101 wrote:
"if your right hand is causing you pain"... its probably about time you stopped wanking.
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nearmoor wrote:
another great band
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hexpheen wrote:
cocaine.
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comkaz wrote:
one of my faves lately :)
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ajjelibean wrote:
Wow, I'm in love with this song! Bloc Party rocks but daaaang :)
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glenn_hwj wrote:
the only downside of this song is the autotune. Kele doesn't neede autotune so there was no point!
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EricUSnavY wrote:
This song is so awesome.
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