“Kele Okereke’s sixth solo album The Flames pt. 2 arrives as a response to 2021’s The Waves pt.1, an album that was written and recorded by the Bloc Party frontman in the pandemic. The Waves pt.1 saw Kele lost at sea, and this new release is the sound of him emerging from that disorientating feeling. Finding himself again in this renewed reality, Kele finds immediacy and intensity, inspired by the ”