Bloc Party’s Gordon Moakes is “not involved” in the new album

Bloc Party bassist Gordon Moakes (pictured, middle left) has publicly announced that he’s not involved in the band’s new album.

Moakes took to Twitter to distance himself from the project, stating: “Update for fans: I’m not involved in the latest incarnation of Bloc Party. I’m now focussing on Young Legionnaire. Gordy #rhythmsection4hire.”

Back in 2013, drummer Matt Tong quit Bloc Party. The band took to an indefinite hiatus following the release of ‘Four’, but Kele Okereke recently claimed that the band were at work on a fifth LP.

Speaking to Veronica and Lewis from Triple J, Kele said that the band are “at the writing slash recording stage” and that they have “about 18 ideas [for songs], and we’re going to lay them down properly in the next few months.”

“It’s sounding like nothing that we’ve ever done before but that’s what every always says,” he said. “We’ve always been fans of lots of different sorts of things and I feel that maybe in the past we tried to recreate different worlds or sounds. I feel that this record is an evolution of where we were. So far, there’s nothing really that I can compare it to in terms of other musicians where as in the past I could… This is very much our own record.”