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Bloc Party have shared the first glimpse inside the studio as they record their fifth album, the first without founding members Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong.
Now comprised of vocalist Kele Okereke and guitarist Russell Lissack, Bloc Party have shared a preview of their recording sessions - their first as a duo.
In the video, posted to both to the band's official Twitter and Facebook accounts you can hear piano, synth and drum parts being worked out, as well as a shot of a sunny graveyard. Although obviously greeted ecstatically by fans, "So who's in the band?" and "Does the cemetery represent losing Matt and Gordon? RIP."
Watch Bloc Party preview their fifth album below
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Okereke had previously told radio station Triple J that the band were hard at work on the followup to Silent Alarm. "It's sounding like nothing that we've done before but that's what everyone always says." Okereke was clear to clarify that fans shouldn't expect new music imminently: "We're at the writing/recording phase. We've started recording - I think we have about 18 [song] ideas and we're going to lay them down properly in the next few months."
He continued: "We've always had very disparate elements to our music ... this record feels like an evolution of where we were," Okereke continued. "So far there's nothing that I can compare it to really in terms of other musicians, whereas in the past I always could - we were always trying to reference something else."
Okereke has also previously debuted a preview of a new song 'Exes' on acoustic guitar. Listen to it below.
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