Silent Alarm [VINYL]

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As both the band and album’s names imply, Silent Alarm is an overtly political album. Bloc Party fare better than many other bands that dip into that fray, but the results are still mixed: the well-intentioned no-blood-for-oil sentiments of “Price of Gas” are heavy-handed, but “Helicopter”‘s Bush-bashing and the antiwar “Pioneers” (“We promised the world we’d tame it/What were we hoping for?”) are relatively subtle, and work fairly well as political pop manifestos. Further information: Silent Alarm Remixed Bloc Party in concert at The Warfield, San Francisco, on 21 September 2005

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