Ranking Every Bloc Party Album From Worst To Best
2. A Weekend In The City (2007)
Following up on a mesmeric and unexpectedly influential album like Silent Alarm would be an absolutely impossible task for most bands.
However, in A Weekend In The City, Bloc Party have an album that truly captures and pays homage to the winning formula of their debut release and adds a fresh new dimension in a more experimental sound.
Dealing head on with issues such as urban racial relations, identity, relationships and terrorism, A Weekend In The City is certainly Bloc Party's most confrontational album and sits right on trend with a generation that have grown up around these issues and the fallout resentment spilling out because of it.
Because every song has a tendency to sound angry, disillusioned or pessimistic, the release arguably captures the true style of the band that little bit better. Songs like The Prayer and Hunting For Witches pull no punches and leave nothing behind in getting their message across.
There are some moments of uplift in the release however, with songs like Waiting for the 7.18, I Still Remember and Sunday taking the time for us to take stock of our place in this world and enjoying the people, places and events that have helped shape us.
A Weekend In The City really should be considered as one of the great indie albums of its time. Touching and powerful as well as adrenaline-pumping and energetic, it is the band at their most confident, creative and peak.
Song to listen to: The Prayer.
Song to avoid: SRXT.