It’s been 6,138 days since Bloc Party released their iconic debut album Silent Alarm, which still sounds as unfuckwithable today as it did back in 2005. So much — ohhhh, so much — has transpired since then, but we don’t really give a shit about any of that, because Kele Okereke are back today (November 23) with an absolute ripper of a new song called “Traps.” And it absolutely slaps.
The frenzied “Traps” is the first taste of Bloc Party’s forthcoming sixth studio album, Alpha Games, due out April 29 via Infectious / BMG. It was produced by Nick Launay and Adam Greenspan (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, IDLES), and the high-octane post-punk banger has the type of percussion propulsion that made the band so great back in the aughts.
It makes us wish indie dance parties were still a thing.
“From the moment we wrote ‘Traps’, we knew it had to be the first thing people heard from this album; playing it in soundchecks on our last tour before it was finished and hearing how it sounded in those big rooms and outdoors,” says Okereke.
Fire it up below.