Bloc Party To Release New Album ‘Four’, Plan Summer Dates

Bloc Party have announced that they will release their new album ‘Four’ on August 20th via Frenchkiss Records.

The follow-up to 2008’s ‘Intimacy’, which was written and mixed in New York, was also produced by the man behind the likes of Death Cab For Cutie, The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In Alex Newport.

Watch a trailer for the album, to get a taste of what’s to come from the band’s fourth full-length, below.



The band have also got a massive set of tour dates planned, and you can find them below.

JUNE
19 Garage - Glasgow
20 The Ritz - Manchester
21 Koko – London
24 Ebisu Garden Hall – Tokyo, Japan
29 Peace and Love – Sweden

JULY
05 Super Bock Super Rock – Sesimbra, Portugal
06 Open’er Festival – Gdynia, Poland
08 Ruisrock Festival – Turku, Finland
12 BBK Live – Bilbao, Spain
13 Melt Festival – Ferropolis, Germany
20 Festival Les Vieilles Charrues, France
21 Paleo Fest, Switzerland
28 Splendour In The Grass, Australia
30 The Republik – Honolulu, HI USA

AUGUST
03 Hard Festival – Los Angels, CA USA
04 Lollapalooza – Atlanta, GA USA
05 Osheaga Festival – Montreal, CA
07 Terminal 5 – New York, NY USA
08 Terminal 5 – New York, NY USA
09 Terminal 5 – New York, NY USA
11 The Pool @ The Cosmopolitan – Las Vegas, NV USA
12 Outside Lands – San Francisco, USA
16 Pukkelpop Festival – Hasselt, Belgium
17 Lowlands – Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
18 Frequency – St Polten, Austria
24 Rock en Seine – France
25 Open Air Festival – Zurich, Switzerland

SEPTEMBER
04 Mallorca Rocks – Mallorca, Spain
05 Ibiza Rocks – Ibiza, Spain

NOVEMBER
03 Le Stereolux – Nantes, France
04 Le Transbordeur – Lyon, France
05 Le Rocher de Palmer – Bordeaux, France
07 Le Bikini – Toulouse, France
08 Alcatrax – Milan, Italy
11 Docks – Hamburg, Germany
12 Theatrehaus – Stuttgart, Germany
13 Eventwerk – Dresden, Germany
14 Tonhalle – Munich, Germany
18 Vega - Copenhagen, Denmark
19 Munich Brewery – Stockholm, Sweden
20 Rockafeller – Oslo, Norway