- indie rock
- 40 min
- 12 tracks
- Infectious Music
Alpha Games is the sixth studio album by English indie rock band Bloc Party, released on 29 April 2022. It is the first studio album by the band since 2016's Hymns.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Metacritic 65/100
- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubC+
- Clash8/10
- MusicOMH3.5/5 ★
- Pitchfork5.2/10
- PopMatters8/10
- Spin(favorable)
- The Telegraph3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Day Drinker3:14
- 2Traps2:54
- 3You Should Know the Truth3:01
- 4Callum Is a Snake1:60
- 5Rough Justice3:13
- 6The Girls Are Fighting3:55
- 7Of Things Yet to Come4:04
- 8Sex Magik3:26
- 9By Any Means Necessary2:49
- 10In Situ2:55
- 11If We Get Caught3:15
- 12The Peace Offering4:52
12 tracks, 40 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Bloc Party
- Label
- Infectious Music
- Released
- April 29, 2022
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- GB
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