Bloc Party announce new album Alpha Games, share “Traps”

The band’s first album in six years is due in 2022.

November 23, 2021
Bloc Party announce new album <I>Alpha Games</i>, share “Traps” Wunmi Onibudo

Bloc Party have announced details of their sixth studio album Alpha Games, due on April 29 2022 via Infectious / BMG. The news of the forthcoming album is accompanied by the arrival of new song "Traps." Check it out below.

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"Traps" is produced by Nick Launay and Adam Greenspan. Speaking about the song in a statement, frontman Kele Okereke said: “From the moment we wrote ‘Traps’, we knew it had to be the first thing people heard from this album; playing it in soundchecks on our last tour before it was finished and hearing how it sounded in those big rooms and outdoors.”

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Alpha Games is Bloc Party's first studio album since 2016’s Hymns.

Alpha Games:

"Day Drinker"
"Traps"
"You Should Know the Truth"
"Callum Is a Snake"
"Rough Justice"
"The Girls Are Fighting"
"Of Things Yet to Come"
"Sex Magik"
"By Any Means Necessary"
"In Situ"
"If We Get Caught"
"The Peace Offering"

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Bloc Party announce new album Alpha Games, share “Traps”