Bloc Party announce new album 'Four'

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Bloc Party have revealed that they will be releasing their upcoming fourth album, succinctly entitled Four.

Four will be released on Les Savy Fav-imprint Frenchkiss Records on 20 August after writing took place in New York earlier in the year.

Bloc Party have also unveiled an album teaser, the video of which you can view at the bottom of the page. And Kele expanded a bit about the new record on his blog:

“we have just finished mixing our new record. i am very proud of it. it is the best thing that we have ever done and finishing this record has taken us on quite a journey.”

We’re just hoping it’ll be somewhere near as good as their first two releases and nowhere as bad as their last one, Intimacy.

The band will also embark on a pretty massive forthcoming tour:

June
19 – Garage – Glasgow
20 – The Ritz – Manchester
21 – Koko – London
24 – Ebisu Garden Hall – Tokyo, Japan
29 – Peace and Love – Sweden

July
5 – Super Bock Super Rock – Sesimbra, Portugal
6 – Open’er Festival – Gdynia, Poland
8 – Ruisrock Festival – Turku, Finland
12 – BBK Live – Bilbao, Spain
13 – Melt Festival – Ferropolis, Germany
20 – Festival Les Vieilles Charrues, France
21 – Paleo Fest, Switzerland
28 – Splendour In The Grass, Australia
30 – The Republik – Honolulu, HI USA

August
3 – Hard Festival – Los Angels, CA USA
4 – Lollapalooza – Atlanta, GA USA
5 – Osheaga Festival – Montreal, CA
7 – Terminal 5 – New York, NY USA
8 – Terminal 5 – New York, NY USA
9 – Terminal 5 – New York, NY USA
11 – The Pool @ The Cosmopolitan – Las Vegas, NV USA
12 – Outside Lands – San Francisco, USA
16 – Pukkelpop Festival – Hasselt, Belgium
17 – Lowlands – Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
18 – Frequency – St Polten, Austria
24 – Rock en Seine – France
25 – Open Air Festival – Zurich, Switzerland

September
4 – Mallorca Rocks – Mallorca, Spain
5 – Ibiza Rocks – Ibiza, Spain

November
3 – Le Stereolux – Nantes, France
4 – Le Transbordeur – Lyon, France
5 – Le Rocher de Palmer – Bordeaux, France
7 – Le Bikini – Toulouse, France
8 – Alcatrax – Milan, Italy
11 – Docks – Hamburg, Germany
12 – Theatrehaus – Stuttgart, Germany
13 – Eventwerk – Dresden, Germany
14 – Tonhalle – Munich, Germany
18 – Vega – Copenhagen, Denmark
19 – Munich Brewery – Stockholm, Sweden
20 – Rockafeller – Oslo, Norway