Bloc Party VS Sudoku
OK, this is something that keeps bugging the hell out of me. I mean, I dig timely lyrics as much as the next guy… but I can’t help cringing everytime I hear:
You spend all your spare time; trying to escape… with crossword puzzles and Sudoku
Does Sudoku really need to infiltrate music? Why would Bloc Party want to date their album like that? I get that the main drift of the album hovers around the youth of today and the current state of affairs, but still. When Sudoku is dead and gone in five years and I return to this album, I can imagine that I’ll be really bothered by that reference. Especially since it’s sung so clearly and with such weight.
Anyway, on the whole, I dig the new album Weekend in the City, but I can’t help but feel as though the vocals feel more self-conscious then the previous album. Kind of as though Kele Okereke is signing to hear himself sing rather than belting out thoughts as they explode from his person. Just not quite as passionate as before.
I need to remember never to play Sudoku.
Posted in Music
March 31st, 2007 at 7:26 am
[...] The funny thing is, I was expecting the show to be terrible. The location was super far away, I’d never heard of the place, it was billed as a seated affair (The seats which my woman had turned out to be excellent, but who wants to sit?), I hadn’t loved Bloc Party when I saw them last year in McCarren pool (despite loving their first album), and, to be honest, I haven’t been too into “Weekend in the City.” [...]