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  • On their third effort, high-octane guitar pop purveyors Bloc Party get personal.

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    A (VERY) BRIEF DISCOGRAPHY


    Silent Alarm
    (Atlantic, 2005)

    Their head-turning debut featured remarkably accomplished songs equally suited for the disco (“Banquet”) or the morning after (“Blue Light”).
    Penthouse Pick: “This Modern Love”

    A Weekend in the City
    (Atlantic, 2007)

    Okereke’s focus goes broad (the furious anti-anti-immigration screed “Hunting for Witches”) and razor-thin (the coke-happy “The Prayer”) on this hit-and-miss sophomore effort.
    Penthouse Pick: “Flux”

    Bloc Party
    Intimacy
    (Vice/Atlantic)
    Rating: ★★★
    Penthouse Pick:
    “Mercury”

    Bloc Party’s first two albums established them as the bravest Britpop band in a decade, marrying singer Kele Okereke’s frustrations-political, romantic, and otherwise-to spiky blasts of postpunk angst.This is the band’s boldest state ment yet: a diary of a romance gone bad set against a cacophonous backdrop of a world at war. At times, this fearless embrace of newness pays off: The clattering single “Mercury” flirts with full-on techno, while the lovely, featherlight “Biko” is built around a chopped-up spoken-word sample. But more often than not, the sonic innovations outstrip the songs’ foundations. On the overstuffed “Trojan Horse,” a buzzing swarm of guitars distracts from the delicate lyrics (“you used to take your watch off before we made love”). It’s the sound of a band attempting to run before they’ve mastered walking.

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