Strange, my relation with this band: the whole world seems to have discovered them on their previous record, but apart from the titles, I wouldn't even recognize any of the tunes, I guess.
Then again: I remember me buying Siamese Dream and Ten in a huge (make that humonguous) CD-shop in Köln, two years after the hype, and guess what: those are the breakthrough records of bands I have loved (and in one case still do) for years.
It all starts with that incentive beat and the african-chant-style humming, torn wide open by one of the finest opening lines in recent musical history, sung with the pathos of the better Shakespearian drama. It sucks you in and pulls you under. The theme is so well-cut and familiar to me, that I could have written the lyrics myself: the silently screamed request - or prayer if you will - for being the best 'yourself' that is in you, on the evening of the supposedly greatest party in years. I will impress everybody with my dance moves, I'll be clever on the wits, tell the perfect jokes at the right time, who knows, I know I will at least feel that some girls are charmed by me - and I may take that as far as just not crossing borders or choose to ignore it at all: but it will be at my power. I will be a local king tonight. Friends will come abound, money will not be of matter and the DJ will play my songs. Tonight make me unstoppable.
Then all that is just emphasized by this videoclip: all scenes are so familiar! The sitting boredly around waiting for something to ignite the night, the beautiful woman that is somehow everywhere, the daze of beats and substances, the looking around triumphantly (the view of his eyes and mouth while walking around is better facial acting than anything Jim Carey ever produced): this song is a drug. I want to play it over and over, I want it to try and bore me but it still makes me want to bare my teeth when singing along...
...and then there is the sting: of course the song is also about mostly not getting any of that.
Oh in short: everybody: listen to Bloc Party/!
And did I mention they're coming to Rock werchter this year =) ?
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