Bloc Party's Second Album Is 'In The Home Straight'

Bloc Party have revealed more about the recording sessions for their second album.

Speaking on the bands Marshalls mail out Gordon Moakes revealed that the quartet have just finished a month long recording stint at Grouse Lodge, County Westmeath in Ireland.

Describing the processes involved he said: “Jacknife Lee has guided us skilfully through the process, encouraging all kinds of thinking and attitude to get the best we can out of this record. We've all been banging and hitting things, detuning guitars, programming beats and making various kinds of racket.”

He added: “I guess we had big ideas for this album and Jacknife has given them the green light and urged us to go further.”

And on the new material: “I shan't reveal too much just yet, but expect a song where Matt and I play drums simultaneously; some truly R'n'B-styled beats; Russell's work with a Big Muff pedal; the sound of a guitar amp being thrown off a first-storey balcony; at least one unplayable guitar solo; both eggshell-thin fragility and trouser-flapping hugeness; piano, glockenspiel, strings; you name it.”

The band will now return to London to finish off the songs and ideas started in Ireland, Moakes described the album as: “Not finished, but definitely coming round the corner into the home straight.”