Bloc Party - Flux

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  • Bloc Party's latest single, 'Flux,' is a Bloc Party song in name only. Produced by Jacknife Lee, it owes far more to his production style than it does to Matt Tong's considerable dexterity on the skins or even Russell Lissack's shards of guitar. In fact, the only traces of Kele and the gang is, well, Kele himself dedicating his mewl to lyrics about "needing to talk." Devotees of Lissack's asymmetrical haircut need not worry: 'Flux' does exactly what it sets out to do. It just might be one of the better dance/rock hybrids released this year. Lee takes the elements that the Party give him (a Darude-esque sequencer line, thin screeching guitar chords, workmanlike drumming) and transforms it into a Paul Oakenfold-for-hipsters anthem. (That's not necessarily a bad thing, by the way. Just don't be surprised to hear it mixed into DFA's remix of Le Tigre's 'Deceptacon.') On the flip, after an instrumental version of 'Flux', increasingly less mysterious dubstep producer Burial turns in a suitably atmospheric remix of the most atmospheric track from A Weekend in the City, 'Where Is Home?' He does the only reasonable thing to Kele and turns him into a ghost and, less often, a chipmunk. The subject matter is in Burial's wheelhouse - tracks named 'Broken Home' and 'Homeless' appear on his two studio albums - and he goes to town with a minor key piano and a cadaverous choir of Kele's. (That's not necessarily a bad thing either, by the way. Just don't be surprised to see it on a blog near you very, very soon.)
  • Tracklist
      A Flux (12" Version) B1 Flux (12" Instrumental) B2 Where Is Home? (Burial Remix)
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