Issue 452

Bloc Party

"I think if you set out to innovate, that's quite contrived in itself, but with us, the principle we always had was not to repeat ourselves, and always try and do something new with each song," Bloc Party bass player Gordon Moakes tells me from his London home on the eve of the British art-rockers most expansive Australian tour. "If we've heard it before in one of our own songs, we always think, 'well, we don't need to do this again'. I think that was just the way we always approached it - does it appease that kind of instinct in us each time, you know?"

Augie March
Watch Me Disappear
Sony/ BMG

The title of Augie March's fourth album alludes to it, and listening to 'Watch Me Disappear' it's hard not to be struck by a recurring theme of escape. Easily their most anticipated album after One Crowded Hour turned them into unlikely pop stars, it's quite possibly these very expectations that they're trying to outrun. This being Augie March, though, the worlds that Glenn Richards is escaping from are richly populated and wonderfully described.

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