Bloc Party return with Alpha Games, their first new album since 2016’s Hymns.
Alpha Games, produced by Nick Launay & Adam Greenspan (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, IDLES), includes new single ‘Traps’, which sees the band returning to the raucous, high-octane sound of their earliest work in an outburst of propulsive post-punk.
The album’s 12 tracks veer from the intense and confrontational (‘Traps’, ‘Day Drinker’) to melodic and introspective (‘If We Get Caught’, ‘By Any Means Necessary’), and marks a new and important chapter in one of music’s most important voices in Kele Okereke and important bands in Bloc Party.