While Russell Lissack's been putting the final touches to Pin Me Down's debut album, his Bloc Party bandmate Kele Okereke has been busying himself with his own side-project.Kele is due to release his solo album 'The Boxer' in June and Shane has kindly pointed me in the direction of the first cut from the record, 'Tenderoni'.
A slow-burning but eventually sprightly dance-pop gem with a deliciously intricate structure, the track takes the elements of electropop that have gradually infiltrated Bloc Party's to new extremes:
I'm sold.
P.S. Is it just me, or does the track remind anybody else of this?
[audio via Sheena Beaston]
