| REVIEWS:
3 Track Album Promo:
"The Black Bloc have provided a wide spectrum of musical styles which bodes well for the future.....strong male vocals, fierce guitar riffs and a foot tapping beat. Lead singer Michael Bush sings with a raw, intimidating, aggression that captures your attention instantly.....The variance and diversity in the 3 tracks is refreshing and bold, and works remarkably well. I liked all 3 tracks and don't hesitate to recommend it to other open minded music fans. 4.5 out of 5"
(Leeds Music Scene)
General:
"The Black Bloc number in four and have recently self released a low key self titled 10 track debut full length which by rights should be getting hammered by the undergrounds clued up cognoscenti. The Black Bloc contest a curious hybrid of sounds - indelibly rooted in all things austere post punk....the melodies riddled in mazes of softly distraught friction, austerity and paranoia it soon begins to entangle its roots into the cosmic climes of the shadowy regions of baggy, goth psychedelics and early 90’s club floor indie....Elsewhere there’s some stunningly oblique dislocated funk - tronics courtesy of ‘another hundred dead’ and the frantic controlled frenzy of the scarred ‘death of a culture’. Given a healthy supply of radio play ‘children of the sun’ could prove to be a hidden gem in waiting.....The aforementioned debut album is in our sights earmarked for urgent attention."
(The Sunday Experience)
"Our mate Simon calls this 'post apocalyptic proper raw Northern music', and I'm not gonna argue with that. With tracks titles like 'The Streets Have Eyes' you'll pretty much get the idea. Think CCTV, nuclear meltdown and the surveillance state all mixed up with some cracking guitar riffs."
(Strummerville - The Joe Strummer Foundation)
"I really like this (Death Of A Culture). It's not what I would normally listen to but, this grabbed my attention and kept it! You guys know how to write a track. This is very, very good. Very distinctive vocal. Tight backing track and a good recording."
(Yorkshire Music Collective - Listener Reviews)
"The Blac Bloc have a nice full sound (and they carry it off live too). Thankfully they don't sound like other bands around at the moment. I like the repetitive sections, it just digs and digs at you head and the ending is beautifully stark."
(Yorkshire Music Collective - Listener Reviews)
"The Black Bloc are the local bright hopes for 2008, combining deep grooves psycheadelic guitar and powerful melodies to great effect."
(Halifax Evening Courier)
“Politically charged space-punk bursting with ambient hooks. At times angry, at others completive, but always engaging…idiosyncratic, informed and ambitious in scope in the vein of Gang of Four or Rage Against The Machine but perhaps a little less settled and more eclectic and with colouration form the 90’s Trip-Hop scene…It is, in reality, in the live arena where this band really comes to life. Unmanaged, unmediated – immediate and spontaneous.”
(Translate Zine)
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