2023-08-14 18:31:55
Without once more straight to the start Silent Alarm-Times to mourn: The direction is right following the qualitative course correction Alpha Games for Kele and Co. using the The High Life EP still.
Bloc Party After the successful studio album from the previous year, they level off at an all-round solid level that hardly does anything wrong, but really doesn’t do anything really outstanding. The frame from the opening title track is less successful High Life (where in the aesthetic wake of the Foals unexcitedly funky, a rolling danceability with relaxed indie disco fluff, mathy guitars, handclaps and percussion is created, but it remains much too harmless, boring and pleasant) as well as the closer The Blood Moon (the one Bigmouth Strikes Again-Reminiscence with ambient patina unfortunately leads to a pop-shallowness that wants to be a bit too fluffy), while the middle of the EP is convincing without inspiring.
Keep It Rolling is a successful standard with a subtle, soft drive and emotional melancholy, which thanks to the (nevertheless somewhat wasted) KennyHoopla (on the threshold of a gimmick feature?) on the Alex Reed list at the end in the solemn atmosphere even briefly screams the frustration from the soul, but at most vaguely hints at all the consequences.
A fate that is also the ballad, which is beautiful in itself Blue as a highlight, sharing the sound and feel of the first like a contemplatively slowed-down memory Bloc Party-Albums works, also picks up speed with a slight whirl, but lets the vaguely uplifting mood ripple just as noncommittally. Why, despite the now reduced claims Bloc Party is quite possible that High Life EP to show pleasant goodwill and to quickly forget the total of 13 minutes, but above all to find it pretty irrelevant.
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