Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
List Price:
Our Price: $13.99
You Save: $1.99 (12%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $2.35 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Artist: Bloc PartyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Music Label: Vice Records
Soundtracks:
- Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
- Hunting For Witches
- Waiting For The 7:18
- Prayer, The
- Uniform
- On
- Where Is Home?
- Kreuzberg
- I Still Remember
- Sunday
- SRXT
Music reviews of A Weekend in the City
Music Review: Forgotten Middle Child
Rating: 3 Stars
Not as fun as Silent Alarm, and not as grandly sublime as Intimacy, this album is easily forgotten save a few key tracks.
Description of A Weekend in the City
The follow-up to their smash debut, "Silent Alarm", is every bit as bright, powerful, and catchy, with the addition of more muscle, attitude, depth, and a bit of polish courtesy of their producer, Jacknife Lee (U2, Snow Patrol). Inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls "the living noise of a metropolis", this record captures every detail of daily life in a modern city from the ebullient to the mundane. From the quiet desolation of commuting to casual sex, from going out on a Friday night to the long ride home early in the morning, these are songs desperate to understand the meaning that pulses under the moments of our every day.Bloc Party may have arrived in an outbreak of like-minded British bands set upon shooting holes in the Union Jack while knocking out a sharp post-punk soundtrack, but it didn't take long for the foursome to set itself apart from the pack. Fronted by Nigerian-born singer Kele Okereke, the group's 2005 debut, Silent Alarm, soared as much on crystal ambition as it did on ridiculously danceable pop melodies. This follow-up is darker, more cluttered, and harder to digest. That doesn't make it less striking. Exploring themes of racism, terrorism, sexuality, addiction, and death--the usual fodder for a cosmopolitan three-day bender--Weekend in the City is an album that plays to Bloc Party's strengths: tempo-shifting rhythms, inventive art-rock arrangements, and lyrics that twist and turn on a whim. "The Prayer" and "Uniform" are particular standouts, capturing moments when Okereke lets self-importance fade and majestic beats take charge. --Aidin Vaziri
General CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in General CDs
Doves - Kingdom of RustRelease date: 2009-04-07; Music CD
Best price: $10.11
Price in other shops:
Fleet Foxes - Fleet FoxesRelease date: 2008-06-03; Music CD
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops:
The Fray - The FrayRelease date: 2009-02-03; Music CD
Best price: $8.55
Price in other shops:
Dark Was the NightRelease date: 2009-02-17; Music CD
Best price: $12.05
Price in other shops:
Coldplay - Viva La VidaRelease date: 2008-06-17; Music CD
Best price: $7.46
Price in other shops:
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe Deluxe Box Set (3 CDs/ DVD/ 2 Books)Release date: 2009-04-21; Music CD
Best price: $81.16
Price in other shops:
Silversun Pickups - SwoonRelease date: 2009-04-14; Music CD
Best price: $8.99
Price in other shops:
Kings of Leon - Only by the NightRelease date: 2008-09-23; Music CD
Best price: $7.80
Price in other shops:
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal ThingsRelease date: 2008-05-13; Music CD
Best price: $8.93
Price in other shops:
Twilight SoundtrackRelease date: 2008-11-04; Music CD
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
Kings of Leon - Because of the TimesRelease date: 2007-04-03; Music CD
Best price: $6.50
Price in other shops:
Kings of Leon - Only by the NightRelease date: 2008-09-23; Music CD
Best price: $8.42
Price in other shops:
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow StairsRelease date: 2008-05-13; Published: 2008; Music CD
Best price: $9.50
Price in other shops:
MGMT - Oracular SpectacularRelease date: 2008-01-22; Music CD
Best price: $7.04
Price in other shops:
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst NightmareRelease date: 2007-04-24; Music CD
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops:
Interpol - Our Love to AdmireRelease date: 2007-07-10; Music CD
Best price: $7.66
Price in other shops:
Arcade Fire - Neon BibleRelease date: 2007-03-06; Music CD
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops:
Radiohead - In RainbowsRelease date: 2008-01-01; Music CD
Best price: $4.40
Price in other shops:
Bloc Party - IntimacyRelease date: 2008-10-28; Music CD
Best price: $7.55
Price in other shops:
Bloc Party - Silent AlarmRelease date: 2005-03-22; Music CD
Best price: $8.66
Price in other shops: