Silent Alarm

‘The band most likely to do a Franz Ferdinand in 2005!’ proclaims a UK music weekly. This single tells a different story. Bloc Party go one further than the usual flotsam of Joy Division-inspired noiseniks and combine their angular guitar-based funk/punk with a certain amount of heartfelt sentiment. A triumph of romance over spiky noise, perhaps. If Kapranos & Co. were ever this touchingly emotive, methinks the world would probably stop turning.