Bloc Party: Anatomy Of A Brief Romance Vinyl (red)

Why you'll love it

An indie exclusive red vinyl pressing of Bloc Party's seventh album and their first with Trevor Horn producing. It's a concept record about one short, messy love affair, with "Coming On Strong", "Pigwig" and "Now We Can't Be Friends".

This edition

Indie exclusive
Limited edition recycled red vinyl
Fourteen tracks across two sides

About the album

Kele Okereke had always kept his songs at arm's length, and on Anatomy Of A Brief Romance he stopped. The album follows one fleeting relationship from start to finish, every scene, he says, taken from life, and he called it a "disco heartbreak" record before a note of it was out. It's the band's first album since Alpha Games in 2022 and the first with Harry Deacon on bass and keys.

The band made it in Trevor Horn's basement studio in Belsize Park, and Horn, the man behind Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Grace Jones, gives the songs gloss and swing: "Coming On Strong" is giddy, "Love Bombs" and "Muscleworks" bounce, and by "Eulogy" the party is over. It's the most personal record Bloc Party have made. Okereke said writing it was scary; the rest of us get the fun part.