The first brand new material since their wholeheartedly acclaimed debut album "Silent Alarm", "Two More Years" is - once again - the sound of everybody's darlings BLOC PARTY refusing to put a foot wrong.
Not that it's any great stylistic step forward or anything, but the apparently self-analytical "Two More Years" ("what was once golden nas become shaded with grey/ I've become crueller in your presence" sings a rueful Kele at one stage) is very much the sound of what Bloc Party do best, with its' glassy and insistent guitars, subtle melodic twists courtesy of bassist Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong's relentless, nervous heartbeat drums and disco-riding hi-hat propelling things along convincingly. Kele's voice twists restlessly between a "Blue Light-ish whisper and the driving chorus which again underlines the band's resolve and confident self-belief.
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So hardly a "Somewhere Else", but then grand gestures have never been Bloc Party's forte and with "Two More Years" they sound as yearningly vulnerable and brilliantly brittle as ever, so why would you bother looking for the catch? After all, it's a wise man who understands the beauty of preserving what ain't broken, right?
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