Silent Alarm cover

Silent Alarm

Released

Bloc Party’s debut album became a defining document of 2000s UK indie rock, something that wore its various postpunk inspirations thoroughly openly on its sleeve. But if the band rapidly became Kele Okereke’s vehicle first and foremost soon afterward, the original quartet embraced a careening, spiky energy evident throughout on songs like “Helicopter,” “She’s Hearing Voices” and especially “Banquet,” the album’s defining cut with a tight arrangement and vocal acrobatics in full flight.

Ned Raggett

Recommended by

Suggestions
Capture cover

Capture

Thunder Dreamer
Franz Ferdinand cover

Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand
Free Dimensional cover

Free Dimensional

Diamond Rings
Bandwagonesque cover

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub
The Stage Names cover

The Stage Names

Okkervil River
Fuzzy Logic cover

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals
The Photo Album cover

The Photo Album

Death Cab for Cutie
Mighty cover

Mighty

Lord Huron
Bloom cover

Bloom

Beach House