Bloc Party Clip
2:37 into Bloc Party’s song This Modern Love from their 2005 Silent Alarm release is one of my favorite moments in music from the past couple of years. There’s just this massive wave of sound and emotion coming through the speakers when the melody is torn down to it’s essentials; the whirlwind tour through major chord harmonies by overdubbed voices sends chills down my spine every time I hear it.
And hey! I found you can listen to This Modern Love online… now you can hear what I was talking about.
Comments
Nils
I like Bloc Party a lot. Well, I like the songs that they do well, because about 45% of their catalog is pretty bland or just a miss. That said, the songs they do well are extremely good. I think the best song by far from the album Silent Alarm is So Here We Are. That song has the same effect on me that Alex describes for Modern Love. The melodrama from the guitars with the wash of reverb combine and create such a longing, yearning, heartbreaking feeling.