Bloc Party is on another break following 2012’s Four, but frontman Kele Okereke isn’t taking any time off from music. He’s returned with a new solo album -- his second following 2010’s The Boxer -- and is premiering it today exclusively via Billboard.
“I feel like you become more confident in every record you make,” Okereke tells Billboard, referencing his career that began with Bloc Party’s acclaimed 2005 debut Silent Alarm. “Four was a very abrasive rock album, and the whole time we were touring that record, I had started to work on this record, Trick, because I felt that I needed something that was the complete opposite of that, sonically and emotionally. I felt that it needed to be something a lot more intimate and immersive.”
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