Claude says:Bloc Party knocked out their third album in two weeks across London and Kent studios in 2008, working with both Paul Epworth and Jacknife Lee to push past traditional rock arrangements into heavier electronic territory. The rush-release strategy (digital in August, physical in October) and the breakup-fueled intimacy of Kele's lyrics split critics, but the band had decided there were no rules after "Flux" opened the door. You grabbed it the month it dropped and stayed with it through 2010, then let it rest until 2015 when it came back in waves — big bursts in early 2018 and late 2022, "Talons" and "One Month Off" still hitting.