Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke has announced details of new solo LP ‘Fatherland’

Kele Okereke of Bloc Party has recently been playing a handful of solo acoustic shows, and has now shared full details of new album ‘Fatherland’.

The album comes out on 6th October, and features the likes of Years & Years’ Olly Alexander and Corinne Bailey Rae.

The LP is being previewed by new single ‘Streets Been Talking’. The album takes on a wildly different tone to the pulsating, electronic styles of previous solo records ‘The Boxer’ and ‘Trick’, released under the name Kele.

Speaking of the record, Kele says: “I was listening a lot to Elliott Smith’s Either/Or, Pink Moon by Nick Drake, Blue by Joni Mitchell, and the Al Green album, Still in Love With You.

“Writing these songs and expressing these words and feelings, it’s something that’s vital for me. I’m recognising I’m entering into a different part of my life.”

“I’m fully conscious that this record is probably going to serve as a document for Savannah of the relationship between her fathers and who we were before she came into our lives,” he continues. “It feels important for her to see that we don’t have all the answers but we’re trying.”

View the album’s tracklisting and listen to ‘Streets Been Talking’ below.

1. Overture
2. Streets Been Talking
3. You Keep On Whispering His Name
4. Capers
5. Grounds For Resentment (feat. Olly Alexander)
6. Yemaya
7. Do U Right
8. Versions Of Us (feat. Corinne Bailey Rae)
9. Portrait
10. Road To Ibadan
11. Savannah
12. The New Year Party
13. Royal Reign