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Bloc Party are releasing a special live edition of their debut album Silent Alarm, compiled of live recordings from last years homecoming show at Alexandra Palace and European tour, in which the band played the album in full. Silent Alarm was released in 2005 to widespread critical and commercial success, achieving multi-platinum sales and earning Bloc Party a Mercury Prize nomination. The album has since been heralded as one of the most influential and important of the decade by outlets as diverse as Pitchfork, Q, Newsweek, Spin, Complex and Clash, and was named in numerous lists collating the best albums of the decade, whilst NME named it as one of the best of all time.
Press from original studio album:
charismatic sophistication and outstanding songwriting Pitchfork (2005)
Silent Alarm is the unpigeonholeable soundtrack to 21st-century life as a cast-off NME (2005)
Pointed pop tunes that yelp and cry, and tug at your heart Rolling Stone (2005)
a seismic charge that shook the very foundations of indie Clash (2015)
a long-overdue reminder of how urgent and exciting rock could be Complex (2018)
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