On 21 October 2021, the band announced through social media that Paul Thomson had departed the band, with Glasgow-based drummer Audrey Tait joining as his replacement, as well as confirming that studio recordings had been undertaken with Tait. The announcement was accompanied by a statement from Thomson and a photograph…
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Tait’s debut performance with the band had taken place several weeks before the announcement, at the Balmain fashion show in Paris on 29 September.
On 22 September 2021, Bloc Party posted to their official Twitter account a sneak peek of the tracklist/recording progress of their soon to be released sixth studio album.
The band contributed a cover of the Metallica song ” The Unforgiven ” to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist , released in September 2021.
On April 14, 2021, the band released a 45-minute instrumental piece, entitled “Memories of the Age of Anxiety” on the meditation application Headspace .
Whilst working on the album, Arcade Fire and Owen Pallet wrote the original score of Spike Jonze ‘s 2013 science-fiction romance film Her . Arcade Fire also wrote the song “Supersymmetry” for the film, which would later appear on Reflektor , as well as the melody for “Porno” which can…
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After being unable to tour in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the band created a virtual world tour in January 2021 titled the World’s First World Wide Web World Tour which saw them perform live-streamed sets at country-specific times, with “shows” in Berlin , London, New York City,…
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they also played a show alongside Metallica and Greta Van Fleet that same year.
A live album from their 2018 Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Tour concert at the Royal Albert Hall entitled Live at the Royal Albert Hall was released on 4 December 2020. All proceeds from the album, as with the concert, went to the charity War Child .
In September 2020, the band shared a new single, “Child of the Flatlands.” A month later, the band released “Baby, Sleep” and announced their seventh album, Nature Always Wins . On 27 November 2020 the band released the album’s third single, “I Don’t Know What I’m Doing.” The album was…
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