Silent Alarm
1 January 200436 tracks, 2 hours 17 minutes
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Silent Alarm is the debut studio album by English rock band Bloc Party. Recorded in Copenhagen and London in mid-2004 with Paul Epworth as producer, it was released on 2 February 2005, by Wichita Recordings. The album peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. In the United States, it entered the Billboard 200 at number 114 and the Billboard Independent Albums at number seven. "Helicopter", the double A-side "So Here We Are/Positive Tension", "Banquet" and "The Pioneers" were released as singles. Silent Alarm went on to achieve worldwide sales of over one million copies.
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- Genres
- Alternative rock, indie rock, pop
- Length
- 36 tracks, 2 hours 17 minutes
- Released
- 1 January 2004
- Label
- [pias] recordings
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Tracks
1Like Eating Glass4:21
2Helicopter3:40
3Positive Tension3:55
4Banquet3:21
5Blue Light2:47
6She’s Hearing Voices3:29
7This Modern Love4:25
8The Pioneers3:35
9Price of Gasoline4:19
10So Here We Are3:52
11Luno3:57
12Plans4:10
13Compliments4:41
14Little Thoughts3:29
15Skeleton3:16
16Storm and Stress2:46
17Always New Depths4:56
18Staying Fat2:24
19Tulips3:38
20Two More Years4:27
21She’s Hearing Voices (original version)3:29
22The Marshals Are Dead3:51
23The Answer4:05
24The Present4:37
25Every Time Is the Last Time3:19
26So Here We Are (BBC 1 Rob da Bank – Peel session)3:39
27Tulips (BBC 1 Rob da Bank – Peel session)3:27
28Luno (BBC 1 Rob da Bank – Peel session)3:48
29Compliments (BBC 1 Rob da Bank – Peel session)4:16
30Banquet (demo)3:18
31This Modern Love (demo)4:27
32The Pioneers (demo)3:42
33So Here We Are (demo)3:48
34Helicopter (demo)3:43
35The Price of Gasoline (demo)4:34
36Skeleton (demo)3:33
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Produced by Bloc Party, Paul Epworth, Eliot James and Mark Aubrey and others. Engineered by Joe Hirst and Nick Fountain. Recorded by Eliot James, Mark “Top” Rankin and Matt Tong.