Back with their first brand new single in five years, last night saw Bloc Party return to their post-punk roots with their stunning new single Traps. Built upon it's driving basslines and charged up percussion comes a brilliant re-emergence for the band as they let out their pent up energy to great effect in an outburst of nostalgia that meets their forward thinking logic. Speaking of the new single, Bloc Party singer, songwriter and guitarist Kele Okereke says: “From the moment we wrote ‘Traps’, we knew it had to be the first thing people heard from this album; playing it in soundchecks on our last tour before it was finished and hearing how it sounded in those big rooms and outdoors.” Take a listen below for yourselves.

Alpha Games tracklisting

1. Day Drinker

2. Traps

3. You Should Know the Truth

4. Callum Is a Snake

5. Rough Justice

6. The Girls Are Fighting

7. Of Things Yet to Come

8. Sex Magik

9. By Any Means Necessary

10. In Situ

11. If We Get Caught

12. The Peace Offering

To celebrate the release of Alpha Games, Bloc Party will be touring the UK and Europe in May and June 2022, including a homecoming show at London’s Alexandra Palace. It will be their first tour since their huge 2019 shows, where they performed their seminal debut album Silent Alarm in full across the UK, Europe and North America.

Tickets for the tour are available to pre-sale customers at 9am on 1 December, before going on general sale at 9am on 3 December via http://gigst.rs/BPa.

Bloc Party 2022 UK/EU Tour Dates
Tuesday 10 May - La Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Wednesday 11 May - L'Aéronef, Lille, France
Thursday 12 May - Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
Saturday 14 May - Store Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 15 May - Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
Monday 16 May - E-Werk, Cologne, Germany
Tuesday 17 May - TivoliVredenburg Ronda, Utrecht, Netherlands
Thursday 26 May - O2 Academy 1, Birmingham, UK
Friday 27 May - Rock City, Nottingham, UK
Saturday 28 May - Alexandra Palace, London, UK
Monday 30 May - O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
Tuesday 31 May - O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK
Thursday 2 June - O2 City Hall, Newcastle, UK
Friday 3 June - The Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
Saturday 4 June - O2 Academy, Leeds, UK

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