
A Weekend in the City
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  Album • Feb 06 / 2007 • 13 songs, 59m 44s
    
    
    Post-Punk Revival
  
  
    Indie Rock
  
  
      
      
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  Roughly two years after their dynamic debut Silent Alarm, Bloc Party are no less earnest and deadly serious, but no less in charge of their craft either.
      
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  Album number two might've been the perfect time for Bloc Party to buff its sinewy, tense dance-rock into something even more overtly palatable than 2005's excellent Silent Alarm. And on the surface, A Weekend In The City smells a bit like a shot at a wider audience. It's less frantic, less reliant on Kele Okereke's…
 
