Bloc Party: Pre-sales, B-sides

From Aversion.com:

"Bloc Party's set plans for its first single from its upcoming album, and you're going to have to go on a shopping spree if you want to get all the B-sides.

"The band revealed its 'The Prayer' will be the lead single from its upcoming A Weekend in the City, which hits stores Feb. 6 from Vice Records. The single, which will be released in a single CD format and as a pair of different 7-inch releases, makes its debut Jan. 29 from Wichita Recordings in the United Kingdom. CD B-sides are 'We Were Lovers' and 'The Prayer (Phones Metal Jackin' Mix),' while vinyl lovers get 'England' and 'Version 2' on their respective flip sides."

From Insound.com:

"Be one of the first 1000 people to pre-order the new Bloc Party album, A Weekend In The City, and receive a FREE LIMITED EDITION 7". This INSOUND EXCLUSIVE vinyl features two tracks, 'I Still Remember' and an unreleased B-side, 'We Were Lovers'! Quantities are limited so order now. This won’t be repressed!

"THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER AND WILL SHIP ON OR NEAR THE FEBRUARY 6TH RELEASE DATE.

"Bloc Party's newest collection of songs, A Weekend in the City, is a stunning, intense and brilliant follow-up to their celebrated debut, Silent Alarm. A Weekend in the City is inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls the living noise of a metropolis. On Weekend, the band captures every detail from the ebullient to the mundane of daily life in a modern city, and the quiet desolation that suffuses everything from commuting to casual sex, from going out on a Friday night to the long ride home near the early hours of the morning. These are songs desperate to understand the meaning that pulses under the moments of our every day; they're bursting with tension, paranoia, sadness, love, and an intense need for reasons as to how city life has become so displacing. Not since Radiohead's OK Computer has a British band explored the diseased state of modernity so completely."

From BlocParty.com:

"Bloc Party's A Weekend in the City [isn't] out until the 5th of February (UK) and the 6th of February (US), but it's available for pre-order now.

"You can now pre-order the band's forthcoming album online.

"In the UK there is a standard limited edition album available which includes an exclusive DVD."

You can currently stream the new single "The Prayer" at Bloc Party's MySpace page. There are more details about the UK singles at Blog Party and Good Weather for Airstrikes has an mp3 (via Vice Records) of Kele Okereke discussing "The Prayer." As with the Interpol post, I know this is day late/dollar short stuff, but I have been busy.

MP3: Bloc Party - "Tulips" (Club Version)
MP3: Bloc Party - "Hero" (Single Version)