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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">STREAM KELE</span><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">’</span><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">S
NEW ALBUM <i>TRICK</i> VIA <i>BILLBOARD.COM</i> NOW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">OUT OCTOBER 14<sup>TH</sup> ON LILAC RECORDS
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">(VIA KOBALT LABEL SERVICES)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bloc Party</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">’s
<b>Kele</b> will release his sophomore solo album <b><i>Trick</i></b> next week on
<b>Lilac Records</b> via <b>Kobalt Label Services</b>, but fans can stream the incredible electronic record in its entirety one week early at
<b><i>Billboard.com</i></b> starting today! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Following his brilliant first solo effort, <i>The Boxer</i>, Kele takes further detours into the dance world with
<i>Trick<b>, </b></i>creating a charged, nocturnal atmosphere where everything and anything could happen.
</span><a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/6274213/kele-okereke-solo-album-trick-bloc-party-2014-exclusive-interview"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PRESS HERE</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Drawing upon an extensive period of DJ sets all over the world, not to mention stints producing his own electronic music, <b>Kele</b> provides a tantalizing peek into the after-hours
mischief with his<b><i> </i></b>sophomore solo record. </span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Trick</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">is
a different, sleeker beast than<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Boxer</i>, with a newfound emphasis on Kele’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Trick</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It is also, undoubtedly, a nocturnal album, one to soundtrack late night assignations and random pairing offs in the wee hours. The slinky opener
<b>“First Impressions”</b> sets the stall perfectly, coupling <b>Kele’s</b> 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
<b>“Like We Used To,” “Humour Me,” </b>and <b>“Doubt”</b> also explore similar, exotically charged terrain, beckoning the listener to after-hours mischief late into the night, with
<b>Kele’s</b> lucent production and emotive vocals providing potent pulse points of longing and desire.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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
<b>“Closer,” </b>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
<b>“Stay the Night” </b>closes everything out gorgeously, with <b>Kele’s</b> 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
<b>Kele’s</b> hands, it becomes something at once powerfully resonant and effortlessly infectious, something which aims for your hips but echoes in the heart long after.
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pre-order the album on iTunes:
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