Review
What is it about sex that punks find so scary? From Joy Division to blink-182, nothing can inspire fits of existential dread so much as a booty call — that obliteration of the body’s borders and the icky closeness of someone else. Like Franz Ferdinand (who helped break Bloc Party after hearing a demo), these London post-punks spice up jumpy dance-rock on this EP with a dash of paranoia and libidinal unrest. On the single “Banquet,” singer Kele Okereke pulls off a great trick: He sounds both horrified by intimacy and thoroughly sexy, yelping one second, unfurling a falsetto ribbon the next. Still, his hysteria and hipster carnival bark feel affected, and the band often sounds rickety and thin where they’d like to slam and shimmy.
DOWNLOAD THESE: “Banquet,” “She’s Hearing Voices”
DOWNLOAD THESE: “Banquet,” “She’s Hearing Voices”
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