Stream KELE's New Album TRICK Via BILLBOARD.COM!

[Jen Appel]

STREAM KELE'S NEW ALBUM TRICK VIA BILLBOARD.COM NOW



OUT OCTOBER 14TH ON LILAC RECORDS

(VIA KOBALT LABEL SERVICES)



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Bloc Party's Kele will release his sophomore solo album Trick next week on Lilac Records via Kobalt Label Services, but fans can stream the incredible electronic record in its entirety one week early at Billboard.com starting today! Following his brilliant first solo effort, The Boxer, Kele takes further detours into the dance world with Trick, creating a charged, nocturnal atmosphere where everything and anything could happen. PRESS HERE<http://www.billboard.com/articles/6274213/kele-okereke-solo-album-trick-bloc-party-2014-exclusive-interview> to listen now.


Drawing upon an extensive period of DJ sets all over the world, not to mention stints producing his own electronic music, Kele provides a tantalizing peek into the after-hours mischief with his sophomore solo record. Trick is a different, sleeker beast than The Boxer, with a newfound emphasis on Kele's soulful vocals, which grew and changed during the course of recording the album in London and New York. Framing his intensely personal songwriting within the context of dance culture, Trick is a record which boldly stands at the crossroads of club history, old school soul and modern electronic R&B, with a distinctively British twist.



It is also, undoubtedly, a nocturnal album, one to soundtrack late night assignations and random pairing offs in the wee hours. The slinky opener "First Impressions" sets the stall perfectly, coupling Kele's suggestive lyrics like "I can't fight, it's just too strong/ I've been waiting oh so long" with lysergic syncopations and stuttering, skittering beats. Tracks such as "Like We Used To," "Humour Me," and "Doubt" also explore similar, exotically charged terrain, beckoning the listener to after-hours mischief late into the night, with Kele's lucent production and emotive vocals providing potent pulse points of longing and desire.



However, there is also an unshakeable sense of melancholy and fragility that haunts the record, the realization that these encounters, while thrilling, are ultimately only fleeting. On "Closer," a female vocal begs her lover to "go easy on this heart, time to love or fall apart" before resigning herself to the fact that she still needs him close to her in the end. And then the arresting torch song "Stay the Night" closes everything out gorgeously, with Kele's world-weary vocals conveying a planet of yearning and vulnerability, as painfully intimate as it is strikingly beautiful. This is dance music alright, but not as you know it; in Kele's hands, it becomes something at once powerfully resonant and effortlessly infectious, something which aims for your hips but echoes in the heart long after.



Pre-order the album on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/keletrick







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