Bloc Party
A Weekend in the City

Warner

Hyped today, gone tomorrow seems to be the music industry’s ever-quickening cycle these days, but don’t tell that to Bloc Party, the British indie rockers who exploded onto the scene with 2005’s Silent Alarm.

After keeping the fires burning with a quickie remix album, the four-piece return in full force with A Weekend in the City. Kele Okereke still boasts one of the best voices in indie rock. His mix of falsetto and yearning howl on the opening barnstormer “Song for Clay (Disappear Here)” is particularly impressive — and it soars over the band’s highly danceable grooves.

Computer beats and bleeps help power the guitar-powered terror-era tune “Hunting For Witches”. The soon-to-be classic first single “The Prayer” begins with hand-claps and humming before ballooning into an anthem hipshaker, while Okereke croons “Lord give me grace and dancing feet and the power to impress”.

Sounds like his prayers — and ours — were answered.