The first time I heard this incredible album open with Every Time is the Last Time, I thought I’d put on the wrong record, now I can’t live without it rolling into Like Eating Glass.

Throughout the studio sessions, Okereke focused closely on the nuances of songs by often amending "microscopics". Compliments” is cut to make it sound like it was actually at the end of the set with a muted audience reaction at the beginning, while the slowed-down introduction of “Like Eating Glass” was built as if it was leading things off, rather than ending the show itself. It was named as NME’s album of the year and the seventh best of the year by review aggregator Metacritic’s chief editor. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.Whitey and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner were the only acts to be hired based on their respective musical credentials. Silent Alarm earned Bloc Party several nominations, including Best Alternative Act at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards, [70] Best British Band at the 2006 NME Awards, [71] and Artist of the Year at the 2006 PLUG Awards. Before their fame, Okereke and lead guitarist Russell Lissack were regular visitors to Erol Alkan's Trash club in London; the early contact with the band led Alkan to rework their first single " She's Hearing Voices". There was not much difference, if anything I’d there was a touch more high/mid detail in the lossless but it sounds colder.

It was preceded by the singles "High Life" and "Keep It Rolling", the latter of which featuring KennyHoopla, which were released on 21 April 2023 and 2 June 2023 respectively. Ladytron's mix of "Like Eating Glass" replaces the lead and rhythm guitars with looped synthesisers and adds a large amount of reverberation to the vocals; [11] the resulting effect was described by Pitchfork Media's Nitsuh Adebe as "walking out of your apartment and thinking you can hear Bloc Party playing a festival six blocks over".Romano and Glazer compared Silent Alarm to U2's early work, [53] [52] while Walters claimed that it distills "twenty-five years of spiky British rock, from The Cure to Blur to hot Scots Franz Ferdinand".

In 2003, Bloc Party consisted of guitarists Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack, and bassist Gordon Moakes. For example, in an interview, Okereke said that the band was starting to miss their more traditional sound, and confirmed that may have been the way fourth album was headed. The album takes its name from a New Scientist article about an earthquake detection system in Japan, but the relevance to the band is obvious.Silent Alarm Remixed is the remix album to Silent Alarm, the debut album by British indie rock band Bloc Party. Whitey reworked " Helicopter" in a minimalist fashion and introduced wolf howls and a xylophone staccato to the song. Bloc Party started writing material for a fourth album in 2011, [72] [73] but decided not to play live.