Bloc Party Announce New Album Alpha Games, Share Lead Single “Traps”: Stream

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Bloc Party are gearing up to release their first album in six years. Alpha Games, the British indie rockers’ sixth LP, is due out April 29th, 2022 via Infectious/BMG. As a preview, Bloc Party have shared the album’s hard-hitting lead single, “Traps.”

Alpha Games was produced by Nick Launay and Adam Greenspan, whose resumes include Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, and IDLES. While Bloc Party’s last album, 2016’s Hymns, took a more subdued and serene approach, “Traps” sees the band return to the ferocity of their back-to-back mid-2000s touchstones, Silent Alarm and A Weekend in the City.

“From the moment we wrote ‘Traps,’ we knew it had to be the first thing people heard from this album; playing it in soundchecks on our last tour before it was finished and hearing how it sounded in those big rooms and outdoors,” frontman Kele Okereke said in a statement.

The track features plenty of layered, noisy guitars and speak-sung vocals that recall the post-punk greats who have influenced many a Bloc Party song. Listen to “Traps” below, followed by the artwork and tracklist for Alpha Games. Pre-orders for the record are ongoing.

Back in 2019, Bloc Party celebrated the 15th anniversary of their still-incredible debut album, Silent Alarm, with a string of shows in which they played its tracklist in full. Earlier this year, Okereke released his fifth solo album, The Waves Pt. 1.

Alpha Games Artwork:

Alpha Games Tracklist:
01. Day Drinker
02. Traps
03. You Should Know the Truth
04. Callum Is a Snake
05. Rough Justice
06. The Girls Are Fighting
07. Of Things Yet to Come
08. Sex Magik
09. By Any Means Necessary
10. In Situ
11. If We Get Caught
12. The Peace Offering

Bloc Party Announce New Album Alpha Games, Share Lead Single “Traps”: Stream
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