Bloc Party - Always New Depths (zShare)
The guitar starts up before you even have a chance to get your bearings, always catching me a little off-guard no matter how many times I listen to it. Then the classic Bloc Party assault of angular/melodic rhythm guitar riff + complimentary lead riff + killer bass line + dancey drums kicks in for a few bars, before the vocals start up. The lyrics are abstract, the delivery almost monotone throughout the intro, yet still begging to be sung along to, until Kele finally explodes like only he can with "Summertime has come and gone / All used up with wishful thinking / Get sussed out, get cynical / In this world there are no second chances". Throughout, Russell's lead guitar is building in intensity, almost anxiously, leading up to a climax you didn't even see coming until everything drops out at 2:19, following one of my favourite lyrics ever (found in the title of this post, not to mention the name of countless mixtapes I've put together). The drums, the bass, both the guitars, even the vocals, all clash chaotically together until the song finally explodes into shouted "Always new depths!"'s, maintaining its energy until everything fades out into a blanket of swirling delayed guitars. It's the kind of joyous explosion of sound that only early Bloc Party can evoke for me; maybe because they're one of the first bands, if not the first, that I truly fell in love with and felt like I'd "disocvered." I've loved everything they've done since Silent Alarm every bit as much as their initial releases, but in completely different ways, and sometimes it's breathtaking to look back at how much ground they've covered.
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