BLOC PARTY ANNOUNCE SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM ALPHA GAMES

 

 

 

DUE 29 APRIL 2022 VIA INFECTIOUS / BMG

ANNOUNCE 2022 UK/EU TOUR

 

Today, Bloc Party have announced details of their forthcoming sixth studio album Alpha Games, due April 29 2022 via Infectious / BMG. Alpha Games is the band’s first studio album since 2016’s Hymns.

Alongside the album announcement, Bloc Party have shared new single ‘Traps’ as the first taste of the upcoming record and revealed plans for an extensive UK and European tour.

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Produced by Nick Launay & Adam Greenspan (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, IDLES), ‘Traps’ sees the band returning to the raucous, high-octane sound of their earliest work in an outburst of propulsive post-punk.

Speaking of the new single, Bloc Party singer, songwriter and guitarist Kele Okereke says: “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.”

 

 

Alpha Games tracklisting

1. Day Drinker2. Traps3. You Should Know the Truth4. Callum Is a Snake5. Rough Justice6. The Girls Are Fighting7. Of Things Yet to Come8. Sex Magik9. By Any Means Necessary10. In Situ11. If We Get Caught12. The Peace Offering 

To celebrate the release of Alpha Games, Bloc Party will be touring the UK and Europe in May and June 2022, including a homecoming show at London’s Alexandra Palace. It will be their first tour since their huge 2019 shows, where they performed their seminal debut album Silent Alarm in full across the UK, Europe and North America.

Tickets for the tour are available to pre-sale customers at 9am on 1 December, before going on general sale at 9am on 3 December via [insert info here].

Bloc Party 2022 UK/EU Tour DatesTuesday 10 May – La Salle Pleyel, Paris, FranceWednesday 11 May – L’Aéronef, Lille, FranceThursday 12 May – Cirque Royal, Brussels, BelgiumSaturday 14 May – Store Vega, Copenhagen, DenmarkSunday 15 May – Tempodrom, Berlin, GermanyMonday 16 May – E-Werk, Cologne, GermanyTuesday 17 May – TivoliVredenburg Ronda, Utrecht, NetherlandsThursday 26 May – O2 Academy 1, Birmingham, UKFriday 27 May – Rock City, Nottingham, UKSaturday 28 May – Alexandra Palace, London, UKMonday 30 May – O2 Academy, Bristol, UKTuesday 31 May – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UKThursday 2 June – O2 City Hall, Newcastle, UKFriday 3 June – The Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UKSaturday 4 June – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK

 

 

 

 

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