Bloc Party's new album

[a contrario]

I note that Bloc Party's new (3rd) album is available for download today.

http://www.blocparty.com/news.php?newsID=349

Has anyone heard it yet? I really enjoyed their first one and thought that the second one was merely 'ok'.

[Penny-lope]

Thanks for the heads up

[a contrario]

Well I've listened to it a couple of times and I think that it's definitely a grower. First track is a bit of a shock to the system to say the least, second track Mercury I'm still unsure about despite hearing it quite a few times on the radio and it settles down a little after that.

It's certainly got the vim and vigour that Silent Alarm had (that imo was missing from A Weekend In The City).