Bloc Party will enter another indefinite hiatus after they fulfill a headline booking at the Latitude festival on July 19th.
The band previously took a long break from each other in 2009, eventually returning last year with the fourth studio album ‘Four‘. And speaking to Postmedia News, guitarist Russell Lissack has said more time off his being planned once the summer is out.
“Definitely after we finish the festivals in the summer we’ll be taking some time off,” he said. “At least six months, maybe a year, maybe two years, it’s hard to say. Once we start taking time off people start doing their own thing. So once people start doing things, then you’ll start naturally extending how long we spend apart.”
“The last record, ‘Intimacy’, when we toured that it was probably more lows than highs due to the relationships in the band not being very good and lack of communication and people not enjoying what we were doing,” Lissack remembered of their last break.
“This time, before we set off on this record, it was something we discussed and I think we’ve been dealing with it a little better. Not a lot better but a little better.”