“For at least a little while in the mid-2000s, Bloc Party was one of the best bands on the planet. Fresh off of the release of their debut album Silent Alarm in early 2005, Kele Okerke and co. were thrust to superstardom in the U.K., eventually leading the indie British invasion of sorts stateside alongside Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, The Libertines and others, acting as the more intellectual ”
