A Weekend in the City
A Weekend in the City | ||||
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Released | 24 January 2007 | |||
Recorded | 2006 | |||
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Length | 51:13 | |||
Label | Wichita | |||
Producer | Jacknife Lee | |||
Bloc Party chronology | ||||
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Singles from A Weekend in the City | ||||
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A Weekend in the City is the second studio album by British
Bloc Party worked to craft an album that distanced them from the conventional guitar band set-up by incorporating more electronically processed beats and additional instrumentation. Computer programs were extensively used to enrich and amend recorded takes, while a
Bloc Party's new musical directions and more forthright lyrics either impressed or alienated critics. Reviewers generally treated A Weekend in the City as an important stepping stone for the band members in their quest for musical maturity, while The Guardian included it in its list of the "1000 Albums To Hear Before You Die". In November 2007, the album was re-released globally—with the final single, "Flux", as a bonus track—to coincide with Bloc Party's extensive touring schedule.
Origins
All band members of Bloc Party conceived A Weekend in the City during 2005 while on tour in support of their critically acclaimed debut album Silent Alarm. Despite missing their home city of London, the quartet became increasingly disillusioned with the culture in the area each time they sporadically returned. Band member Gordon Moakes has noted, "The contrast we saw between being away on tour and being home ... we would see that London wasn't changing really and that the people we'd grown up with were part of that."[1] Okereke wrote many songs in 2005 and early 2006 and used a concept he called "Urbanite Relaxation" to expand upon the themes of life and leisure in the metropolis.[2][3] The band recorded around 30 soundchecks for the initial lyrics using a MiniDisc player.[2][4] The rest of the tracks were written in April 2006 before they entered the studio recording process.[5]
The band members drew up a shortlist of possible producers in early 2006, which included
Moakes has explained the choice of producer by stating that the band members were looking to work with someone who could help them craft an accomplished album, "although as much as anything it's about finding someone who you'd want to spend six weeks in an enclosed space with".
Recording
In mid-2006, Bloc Party travelled to Lee's Grouse Lodge Studios in Westmeath, Ireland, to record A Weekend in the City.[2][10] The band members initially worked by experimenting with their respective instruments and sound check arrangements. Moakes additionally focused on using different types of synthesiser.[9] All parties soon moved to the main recording room, a large area with "a lot of natural ambience" according to sound engineer Tom McFall. A makeshift booth was built around the back of the drum kit to reduce any sonic interference, while a roof was sometimes used over drummer Matt Tong to isolate a pure sound. Different types of microphones were used for each component of the drum kit. The miking scheme was crucial to prepare the drum tracks for the looping and processing Lee planned using production program Logic.[2]
The band worked by setting up all the instruments with only a single
Lee recorded everything using
Promotion and release
"One thing that we've learnt from touring over the last two years is that there are other ways to be powerful whilst making music, rather than being completely full on, 100 miles per hour. We learnt so much about the power of arrangements. I know it sound cheesy, but I guess it is going to be a more grown up Bloc Party."[16]
Kele Okereke, on Bloc Party's musical evolution up to 2007 and its audible results on A Weekend in the City
Bloc Party confirmed a preliminary track list of 13 songs in August 2006; this included future bonus tracks "England" and "We Were Lovers".[15] A low-quality rip of A Weekend in the City was leaked in November and showed a track list of 11 songs. Wichita Recordings did not comment, but the band members were quoted as being worried about a reduction in the potential impact of the album's content and sales.[17] Bloc Party started a promotional tour of North America the same month with Panic! at the Disco, but cut it short after three concerts when Tong suffered a collapsed lung. The focus was changed to interviews throughout the world to explain the album's stylised lyrics and composition in the run-up to its release.[18]
Final tweaks on the album were completed in December 2006 in London.[18] A high-quality version was leaked in January 2007 and its contents were confirmed by Okereke.[17] Journalists who obtained an official copy of the album's final mix suggested that it featured electronically tampered rock soundscapes in the vein of Radiohead, New Order, and Björk.[19] Bloc Party previewed A Weekend in the City in its entirety on 24 January 2007 at the Bournemouth Old Firestation,[20] a performance which coincided with the Japanese release of the album.[21] The first single, "The Prayer", was released on 29 January.[22] The band performed at a special BBC Radio 1 showcase at Maida Vale Studios on 30 January as a precursor to a February promotional tour of the UK.[23]
The album was released in the rest of the world in the first week of February.
Content
Lyrics
Okereke's lyrics attempt to juxtapose the monotonous events—nights out on club dancefloors and waiting for a train—with the seemingly epic experiences—terrorist attacks and racial angst—witnessed in a city environment.[1] The direct narrative approach divided reviewers.[28][29] BBC's Tom Young concluded, "Some will appreciate Kele's openness and revel in his philosophical focus on modern lives ... others will be too distracted by questionable content such as ... lines about sudoku to take Okereke's grumbles into consideration."[30] Okereke has conceded that he was disappointed with the abstraction in Silent Alarm; he used The Smiths as inspiration to try to make a personal album with "a real centre".[31] The lyricist has noted, "I wanted it to be a snapshot, a frozen moment in time. Like in a city, with thousands of stories going on at once, layered on top of each other ... Although I might be speaking through the voice of a character, I'm still expressing, perhaps, my sentiments."[32]
The words to "Where Is Home?" begin at the funeral of
The leading track, "Song for Clay (Disappear Here)", was inspired by Less than Zero, a novel by Bret Easton Ellis which depicts excessive hedonism and its effects on individuals. The song title references the protagonist Clay and a billboard in the book which displays the phrase "Disappear Here", while the action is relocated to Les Trois Garçons restaurant in Shoreditch, East London.[4] "Waiting for the 7.18" provides an escapist counterpoint by mentioning a trip to Brighton following disillusionment with working life in the capital.[10] The fifth song on A Weekend in the City, "Uniform", references London again and criticises the youth subculture in the area. It is directly inspired by Douglas Rushkoff's Merchants of Cool documentary, which details the corporate exploitation of popular culture by advertisement companies.[4]
Okereke read Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life, works which analyse how people experience leisure in modern societies, and was inspired to pen several songs which detail the drug and drink culture present in a metropolis.[9] "The Prayer" is based on drug use during nights out in clubs, while "On" specifies the effects and after-effects of cocaine. Okereke tried to treat the tracks as explanations of people's actions, rather than moralising tales; he has stated, "In a time when so many people feel they can't communicate or feel hemmed in, I can see the appeal of cocaine."[33] "Sunday" details the morning-after hangover following a drunken and promiscuous night out, while "SRXT" takes the form of a suicide note following the loneliness and despair of hedonism in the metropolis. The album closer is named after Seroxat, a trade name for the antidepressant paroxetine, and was crafted following the suicide attempts of two of Okereke's friends after they left university in 2005.[31]
Composition
A Weekend in the City is largely built around a mix of distorted and layered guitars, electronic elements, and multilayered vocals.[33] The creation of compositions required a high level of technical proficiency and led to songs "tinged with discord".[1] The opening section of "Song for Clay (Disappear Here)" includes a bare falsetto,[34] while "Hunting for Witches" starts with a John Cage-like collage of spliced voices from random radio broadcasts as its main rhythm.[12] The rest of the second track makes extensive use of guitar pedal effects and includes a heavily distorted riff.[34] Moakes has pointed out that the original sound check of "Waiting for the 7.18" was a ballad with a simple rhythmic pattern on the glockenspiel before the band members added a drum and bass section to its second half.[9] "Kreuzberg", "I Still Remember", and "Sunday" are the few songs to provide a counterpoint to the musical manipulation on the rest of the album by having more conventional indie rock arrangements;[34] Moakes has called the compositions "lush, without being too syrupy".[35]
In A Weekend in the City, layered vocals are often used to resemble choral sections, for example in the middle of "The Prayer" and throughout "Uniform", which has over 100 stacked vocal tracks.
Critical reception
Media response to A Weekend in the City was mixed, but generally positive; aggregating website
Michael Endelman of Entertainment Weekly was less receptive and stated, "Too often, the music on A Weekend in the City is less memorable than the ambitious subject matter."[40] Robert Christgau, reviewing for Rolling Stone, suggested that the album fails because it lacks "killer choruses",[41] while Sia Michel of The New York Times wrote that the multitracked vocals and baroque effects do not have "the wiry catchiness" of Bloc Party's previous work.[42] Mike Schiller of PopMatters commented that the sonic direction the band had moved to was unsuited to the members' musical strengths,[43] while Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian stated "grand statements are not earnest frontman Kele Okereke's forte...there's barely a song that isn't kneecapped by one of Okereke's lyrical clangers".[44]
The album was named by Los Angeles Times in its unnumbered shortlist of the best releases of 2007.[45] It figured in several other end-of-year best album lists, notably, at number eight by Gigwise,[46] at number nine by Hot Press,[47] and at number ten by The A.V. Club.[48] The Guardian included A Weekend in the City in its "1000 Albums To Hear Before You Die" list compiled in November 2007 and praised the band's "ambitious indie soundscapes packing a sizeable political punch".[49]
Commercial performance
A Weekend in the City was a commercial success and entered the UK Albums Chart, the Irish Albums Chart, and the
The first single, "The Prayer", became Bloc Party's highest charting song on the
Tours and re-release
Bloc Party started a lengthy promotional world tour for A Weekend in the City in March 2007, which included concerts in Japan, the US—where they also headlined at the
Bloc Party embarked on their second major worldwide tour for the album in August 2007, playing across Australia, the US, Mexico, and Canada.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Bloc Party
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Song for Clay (Disappear Here)" | 4:49 |
2. | "Hunting for Witches" | 3:31 |
3. | "Waiting for the 7.18" | 4:17 |
4. | "The Prayer" | 3:44 |
5. | "Uniform" | 5:32 |
6. | "On" | 4:46 |
7. | "Where Is Home?" | 4:54 |
8. | "Kreuzberg" | 5:27 |
9. | "I Still Remember" | 4:23 |
10. | "Flux" (Not included on initial release) | 3:38 |
11. | "Sunday" | 4:59 |
12. | "SRXT" | 4:51 |
No. | Title | Length |
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12. | "Uniform" (James Rutledge Remix) | |
13. | "Hunting for Witches" (Fury666 Remix) | |
14. | "I Still Remember" (Speaker Junk Bass Bin Remix) | |
15. | "Hunting for Witches" ( Crystal Castles Remix) |
Bonus tracks
When present, all songs follow "SRXT" on the January/February 2007 release after a silent three-minute pregap.
- "Secrets" (Canadian edition and Target version) – 4:06
- "The Once and Future King" (Canadian edition and Target version) – 3:20
- "England" (Japanese edition) – 4:15
- "We Were Lovers" (Japanese edition) – 4:12
- "Emma Kate's Accident" (Best Buy version) – 5:38
- "Version 2.0" (Best Buy version) – 3:19
- "Rhododendrons" (US eMusic download version) – 4:49
- "Atonement" (US iTunes download pre-order version) – 3:46
- "Cain Said to Abel" (US iTunes download version) – 3:24
- "Selfish Son" (Rhapsodydownload versions) – 4:59
Another B side, "Vision of Heaven" (3:32), was released as a promotional track exclusively at PureVolume.[71]
Additional formats
Vinyl
- Two LP versions of A Weekend in the City were released: a standard black vinyl copy in a gatefold sleeve and a limited edition picture disc version that has the album cover printed on Side A and the track listing printed on side B.[72][73]
DVD
- In February 2007, a CD+DVD set contained in a red case was released in the UK and Europe simultaneously with the regular CD version of the album. The DVD contains footage of Bloc Party at Grouse Lodge and music videos for "The Prayer" and "I Still Remember".[74]
- An Australian edition of the CD with an extra DVD was released in July 2007. The DVD contains remixes of "Hunting for Witches", "Uniform", and "I Still Remember", and live footage of the band at a special Channel 4 showcase.[75]
- A new version of the CD+DVD was released in the UK and Europe in November 2007. This DVD contains live footage of the band at the 2007 Reading Festival and music videos for the album's four singles.[76]
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of A Weekend in the City.[10]
Bloc Party
Additional musicians
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Technical personnel
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Release history
Region | Date | Label | Format(s) | Catalog |
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Japan | 24 January 2007 | V2 Records | CD | V2CP-320[21] |
Europe | 2 February 2007 | Wichita Recordings | CD, CD+DVD | WEBB120[10] |
Australia | CD | |||
United Kingdom and Ireland | 5 February 2007 | CD, digital download, CD+DVD, LP | ||
United States | 6 February 2007 | Vice Records | CD, digital download, LP | VICE 94598[28] |
CD (Best Buy version) | VICE 94700[30] | |||
CD (Target version) | VICE 94677[77] | |||
Canada | CD | |||
Australia | 16 July 2007 | Universal Records
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CD+DVD | 3628120[51] |
Europe | 16 November 2007 | CD+DVD (new edition) | ||
United Kingdom and Ireland | 19 November 2007 | Wichita Recordings | WEBB120X[76] | |
Australia | 3 December 2007 | CD (new edition) |
Chart positions
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Singles
Song | Peak | |||||
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UK
[22] |
IRE [50] |
US Mod. Rock
[54] |
AUS [57] | |||
"The Prayer" | 4 | 18 | X | 20 | ||
"I Still Remember" | 20 | — | 24 | — | ||
"Hunting for Witches" | 22 | — | — | — | ||
"Flux" | 8 | 41 | — | — |
"X" denotes song not released in a particular country.
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External links
- A Weekend in the City lyrics at Bloc Party official site
- A Weekend in the City critical reviews at Metacritic