IT'S ALL GETTING QUITE HIGHLY CHARGED

It's been a quiet day here at DDJY!, not much in the way of exciting boundary breaking developments; I've still survived another day without Twitter despite what the media are telling me and I'm still yet to find a better single in 2009 than 'My Girls' by Animal Collective

Talking of singles... today sees the release of 'One Month Off' by Bloc Party, the third single taken from their third album 'Intimacy'. I've noticed a lot of people slating Bloc Party's new direction on their latest long-play outing even though they're the sort of people who also slate bands for not trying anything different on consecutive albums. I've been a huge fan of Bloc Party ever since I heard their debut EP, they're a band who helped make my latter teenage years a lot more enjoyable and who I've seen three times (four by this time on Saturday). I don't have much knowledge of how the wider public percieve the band; their last single 'Talons' only got to # 39 in the singles charts yet they still seem to be having as much coverage and support as ever; they continue to try and push themselves in creating a truly modern rock sound, fusing typical rock 'n' roll with dance and elements of drum 'n' bass to create a sound that very few bands would be able to pull off. When it comes to looking back on the 00's in decades to come I'm sure Bloc Party, alongside the likes of LCD Soundsystem, will be a band for new bands to look back upon with great admiration.

Here's an old video I found today of Bloc Party, then known as Union, performing the earliest version of 'Silent Alarm' closer 'Compliments':