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Bloc Party are a British rock band formed in 1999. They're often stuck on the indie label, mainly due to their first album, Silent Alarm, being weighed amongst other indie albums of the time. However, with the second and third albums they have branched into a more electronic-sound while still maintaining some elements of indie rock. The fourth album, imaginatively named ''Four'', features a heavier guitar sound that steers back into Silent Alarm territory and keeps going past the stopping point.

* WatchItStoned While the song On doesn't promote cocaine, it does try to explain its appeal from a first person perspective.

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* AncientRome: 'Coliseum' draws parallels between boxing and Roman gladiator fights.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Corinthians 15:22, referenced in 'Better Than Heaven'.
* BodyHorror: Well, that's what happens when you hire WebAnimation/{{Cyriak}} to make a music video for your song "Ratchet"
* BreakupSong: Like Eating Glass.
** Intimacy is a goldmine of these, being written after a bad breakup of Kele's.
** Also, the b-side We Were Lovers.

* BSide: The band have released loads of these; probably as much as their studio material (if you count the [=EPs=]), to the point where 'fake' albums comprised entirely of Bloc Party b-sides (such as 'Another Weekend in the City') began to appear on torrent sites. OrSoIHeard.
* ButWeUsedACondom: Implied in 'Letter to My Son', where the narrator laments the consequences (the titular son) of a sexually charged love affair.

* CainAndAbel: Played with in 'Cain Said to Abel'.

* CrapsackWorld: The general overarching theme of A Weekend in the City. It's a world where people consume excessive quantities of drugs to numb the pain of their otherwise dull, unfulfilled lives, where racism and discrimination are an everyday fact of life and can sometimes result in being murdered just for possessing a trait arbitrarily considered undesirable by someone else, and where, despite being surrounded by people, the denizens feel more alone than ever. [[DrivenToSuicide Some even kill themselves over it.]] [[FridgeHorror And it's our world]] [[ThisLoserIsYou of course]].
* CuteBookworm: The target of 'Better than Heaven''s protagonist's affections.

* DrivenToSuicide: SRXT.

* FilkSong: Song For Clay is inspired by LessThanZero.
* HearingVoices: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin She's Hearing Voices.]]
* HiddenTrack: Every Time Is The Last Time, an instrumental ambient track, is Track 0 on the original release of Silent Alarm.
* LoveNostalgiaSong: I Still Remember, about a childhood crush from another boy towards another.
* LyricalDissonance: Their dancier songs such as One More Chance and Flux are about failed/failing relationships.

* NewSoundAlbum: Bloc Party's debut album Silent Alarm was well received and known for its heavy use of guitars and was generally considered an example of an excellent indie album. As the band's career progressed they released A Weekend in the City and Intimacy, two albums with increasingly dancier music and less emphasis on guitars and other standard indie fare.
** For example, with Intimacy, Ares and Mercury are a complete departure from Silent Alarm, but by the third track, Halo, the guitars return and we're reminded of their early stuff.

* PrecisionFStrike: Positive Tension. The music builds and builds and then stops for just long enough for him to yell, "So fucking useless."

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: 'Kettling', about the 2011 England riots, and 'Hunting for Witches', about post-7/7 media hysteria.
** The song 'England', about the 'happy slapping' fad of the mid-late 2000s.
** 'Uniform' and 'Version 2.0', cast a scathing view of 2000s mosher/emo culture.
** The song 'The Answer' gives an overview of the contemporary Western world, using imagery such as 'pretty pretty boy sucking on a cola, money to burn' and 'bomb us back together'.
* SanitySlippageSong: She's Hearing Voices is about a girl suffering from bipolar disorder.

* TeensAreMonsters: Explored by a few songs from the 'A Weekend in the City' era from different socio-economic perspectives. 'Uniform' and 'Version 2.0' take a more disappointing/disapproving tone re: the lack of individuality and spirit displayed by the middle/upper-working class youngsters who conformed to various subcultures such as 'emos' back in the first half of the 2000s. The song 'England' takes a [[DarkerAndEdgier much darker tone]], exploring the phenomenon of 'chavs', working-class youngsters who, lacking any meaningful purpose in life, roam the streets committing violent acts.

* WhamLine: "Because I love my mind when I'm [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] you." - Ion Square.

!!!!This band contains examples of:

* DarkerAndEdgier: While Silent Alarm was hardly a light album in terms of lyrical content, the second and third albums delve into much darker topics such as [[WatchItStoned drug use]], [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], and [[CriticalExistenceFailure deaths of loved ones]].
** Four may also count.

* Gordon Moakes - Bass, synths (2003-2015)
* Matt Tong - Drums (2003-2013)

Bloc Party are a British rock band formed in 2003. They're often stuck on the indie label, mainly due to their first album, Silent Alarm, being weighed amongst other indie albums of the time. However, with the second and third albums they have branched into a more electronic-sound while still maintaining some elements of indie rock. The fourth album, imaginatively named ''Four'', features a heavier guitar sound that steers back into Silent Alarm territory and keeps going past the stopping point.

The band consists of:

* Kele Okereke- Lead vocals, rhythm guitar

* Gordon Moakes - Bass, synths
* Matt Tong - Drums

* CreatorBreakdown: The angst of Intimacy was inspired by a particularly bad breakup of Kele's, as well as several deaths of those around him.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Their b-sides are ridiculously hard to acquire legally, as many of them are bonus tracks on Japanese-only editions, 7" [=LPs=], or [=EPs=] that are no longer in print.

* ReclusiveArtist: The band, particularly Kele, are known for their shyness in interviews. Kele especially is quiet and reluctant to talk about anything but his music, despite having a very confident stage persona.

* NerdAreSexy: The narrator of "Better Than Heaven" [[IntercourseWithYou certainly thinks so]].

Bloc Party are a British rock band formed in 2003. They're often stuck on the indie label, mainly due to their first album, Silent Alarm, being weighed amongst other indie albums of the time. However, with the second and third albums they have branched into a more electronic-sound while still maintaining some elements of indie rock. The fourth album, imaginatively named ''Four'', features a heavier guitar sound that steers back into Silent Alarm territory and keeps going.

Bloc Party are a British rock band formed in 2003. They're often stuck on the indie label, mainly due to their first album, Silent Alarm, being weighed amongst other indie albums of the time. However, with the second and third albums they have branched into a more electronic-sound while still maintaining some elements of indie rock.

** 'Uniform' and 'Version 2.0', about 2000s mosher/emo culture.

** The song 'England', about the brief trend of 'Happy Slapping' in the mid-2000s.

* HiddenTrack: Every Time Is The Last Time, a hidden track on the 13-track versions of Silent Alarm.

* AncientRome: 'Coliseum' draws parallels between boxing and Ancient Roman gladiator fights.

* AncientRome: 'THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED!' declares Kele in 'Coliseum', which, through using boxing and Ancient Roman gladiator fights as illustrations, shows that mankinds lust for violence hasn't died down one bit in the last 2000 years or so.