For their debut CD, Bloc Party combines many elements from British music, including sounds reminiscent of The Cure, Coldplay, Blur and Ireland's U2. The band also adds a political message to their cutting edge style of pop. Includes the single Banquet. "**** ... A visceral, vibrating dance machine ... they distill twenty-five years of spiky British rock, from the Cure to Blur to hot Scots Franz Ferdinand ..."--Rolling Stone. "Rarely has romance sounded so expensively, and expansively, sad."--Spin Magazine. "This London gang of four delivers a post-punk mishmash of angular guitars, pulsating bass, and tricky time signatures?Grade: A-"--Entertainment Weekly.
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