Bloc Party confirm fifth album, preview new track ‘Exes’

Kele Okereke has confirmed that Bloc Party have already began to record their fifth studio album, and shared an acoustic clip of a new track whilst speaking to triple j.

The frontman is currently on tour in Australia in promotion of his latest solo offering, ‘Trick’. Speaking to Veronica and Lewis from the station, 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 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.”

There was no mention of personnel, after Matt Tong previously left the band towards the latter stages of their 2013 festival run, but Kele did pick up a guitar to give an acoustic performance of a work-in-progress from the new record, ‘Exes’.

Listen to the preview, along with the full triple j interview below, and check out DIY’s recent Hall Of Fame feature on Bloc Party’s ‘Silent Alarm’ here.