Gordy of Bloc Party Discusses New Album
On the Bloc Party forum, Gordon Moakes talks about the recording their new album with the producer Jacknife Lee:
Bloc Party have finished a month at Grouse Lodge in County Westmeath in Ireland laying down licks and chops for the next record. It rained a lot but it was a truly enjoyable experience: in between the riffola and the twiddling we could be found walking through moist green meadows, exploring haunted houses, shooting at stuff with guns and generally lording it about as if the Irish Potato Famine never happened....Jacknife Lee has guided us skilfully through the process, encouraging all kinds of thinking and attitude to get the best we can out of this record. We've all been banging and hitting things, detuning guitars, programming beats and making various kinds of racket.... I shan't reveal too much just yet, but expect a song where Matt and I play drums simultaneously; some truly R'n'B-styled beats; Russell's work with a Big Muff pedal; the sound of a guitar amp being thrown off a first-storey balcony; at least one unplayable guitar solo; both eggshell-thin fragility and trouser-flapping hugeness; piano, glockenspiel, strings; you name it....
And we've been filming a lot of this stuff too, so expect so see a bit of that here soon too.
G.x
We will probably hear some of those new tracks when Bloc Party plays a sold-out show at McCarren Pool on July 29th with Secret Machines and Mew.