Bloc Party Preview New Album With 'Lagoon Blue' Video

(inside out) Bloc Party today release their new song 'Lagoon Blue,' the final track to be lifted from their forthcoming album Anatomy Of A Brief Romance ahead of its release this Friday 11 September in standard and limited edition vinyl, CD and digital formats via Contagious Music.

'Lagoon Blue' was the first song Bloc Party wrote for the new record, at a time when frontman Kele Okereke was blissfully in the first throes of a new love. However, the relationship soon fractured and then broke, leaving him in despair.

"The song is about feeling like love had come back into my life, when I didn't think that was going to be possible," says Okereke. "So it was a really joyous song for me. But I felt I couldn't sing it every night, knowing what I know now. The only way to make it work was to tell the whole story of our relationship, where 'Lagoon Blue' is only a beat of it, not the whole story."

Produced by the legendary Trevor Horn (Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes To Hollywood), Anatomy Of A Brief Romance is a chronological portrait of Kele's intoxicating love affair, from furtive first glances across the gym floor to the gut-wrenching heartbreak of a final farewell. Alongside 'Lagoon Blue', the record features the singles 'Coming On Strong', 'Love Bombs', 'Pigwig' and 'Not Your Problem'.

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