Video: Bloc Party - One More Chance - New Single Summer 2009

You can't complain about the production from one of the UK's brightest and their newest video is hysterical. The video has Kele serenading a tranny looking coug. Brilliant! You can check out the video for their single, One More Chance , here . Bloc Party-Where is Home (Burial Remix) [mp3] Bloc Party - One More Chance

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Bloc Party have flirted, since their sophomore album, A Weekend in the City , with becoming a full out dance band instead of an angular post-punk with dance-music influences, and it seems like with new single, "One More Chance," they've finished the switch. The song is fueled by a house beat and keys, and the guitars are mostly there to lend muscle to the beat instead of the thrust. This isn't as bad as some of the bad songs on Intimacy , but it's not " Banquet ," that's for sure. [...]

Following last year's very sudden release of Intimacy , Bloc Party is back at the standalone track game, this time it's One More Chance . I have put the YouTube'd version of the song (not a video, but just the track playing) of One More Chance after the jump; enjoy.

If a band can continue to make music that's listenable and release it time and time again then all I can do is sit back and applaud. And today I applaud English dance-rockers Bloc Party. Up top is the band's brand new single "One More Chance" that triggers memories of 90's dance tracks. The jangling piano and that 4/4 beat that instantly makes you nod your head (pretty much every song you would hear at the 8th grade dance). It's this old school house beat that will have you dancing this summer. [...]

Apropos of nothing beyond a compulsive need to be releasing material all the time, Bloc Party follow up last year's rush-release of Intimacy and this year's Intimacy Remixed with this stand-alone nugget, recorded in April with longtime BP associate Jacknife Lee and mixed by Phillipe Zdar. It's more house influenced than anything the band's done yet (check the piano's bounce, the four-to-the-floor kick), Kele still sounding like Kele, and Russell dialing down his art guitars to fit the backdrop's shift, before he dials back in to [...]

Hummm. Further down the rabbithole they go. It's probably better than anything off Intimacy , but that's really not saying much. They still sound incredibly...stilted, caught between two places. It's almost like you can feel the tension within the band in the music. Perhaps best exampled by the fact that a The House inspired piano intro and the fuzzed out, Silent Alarm era guitar solo exists in the same track. It doesn't sound 'innovative' 'brave' or 'fresh' it just sounds fractured. Like Lissack's gone away and Kele have both gone [...]

Bloc Party are getting pretty good at these in-between album singles, what with previous efforts 'Two More Years' and 'Flux' being amongst the best stuff they've done. Following the muddled Intimacy album that tried to please everyone all at once - the Hail To The Thief of their oeuvre as no-one calls it - comes this new single entitled 'One More Chance'. Produced by regular cohort Jackknife Lee and mixed by one of the blokes out of Cassius , 'One More Chance' ditches the beats in [...]