Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke Calls New Album ‘Quite Visceral & Confrontational’

We’re all really rather excited to find out what’s going to come next with Bloc Party’s latest offering and now, in a new interview, Kele Okereke has given us a tiny insight.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the frontman says that the band’s fourth album ‘Four’ is set to be ‘quite visceral and confrontational.’

‘We felt as a band that we needed to reclaim the process,’ he said, in regards to the more ‘raw, lo-fi sound’ that’s found on the album.

However, he remains cautious of giving too much away: ‘I’ve been rather cautious about not speaking too much about what things are supposed to mean, or what things are supposed to be about. I think that it’s more exciting if people, if our fans, just got a record and sat with it and discovered the nuances for themselves, or they read something into the music that I hadn’t even seen.’

Bloc Party are going to be releasing their fourth album ‘Four’ and have now unveiled their tracklisting.

1. So He Begins To Lie
2. 3X3
3. Octopus
4. Real Talk
5. Kettling
6. Day 4
7. Coliseum
8. V.A.L.I.S.
9. Team A
10. Truth
11. The Healing
12. We’re Not Good People

‘Four’ gets released on the 20th August through Frenchkiss Records, and the band have also revealed a host of tour dates scheduled for October.

The band will play the following shows.

OCTOBER
12 Newcastle O2 Academy
13 Leeds O2 Academy
14 Glasgow O2 Academy
15 Birmingham O2 Academy
17 Southampton Guildhall
18 Bristol O2 Academy
19 Manchester, WHP
20 Cambridge, Corn Exchange

Watch the video for their first single to be taken from the album, ‘Octopus’, below.