Kele Okereke, Bloc Party (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
Kele Okereke has suggested a new Bloc Party line-up is taking shape nicely as the band work on a fifth studio album.
The departures of bass player Gordon Moakes and drummer Matt Tong left Okereke and guitarist Russell Lissack as the two remaining original members, but during an interview with Triple J the frontman seemed happy with their yet-to-be-announced replacements.
“I do know what the make-up of the band is going to be but I don’t think I’m allowed to talk about it just yet because I think things are still being finalised,” he said.
“We are a band. We’re better than we ever have been so I’m excited to showcase that.”
“It’s sounding awesome if I do say so myself,” Okereke continued on the LP sessions. “But right now we’re kind of in the middle of it, beavering away at it.”
The new album will be the band’s first since ‘Four‘ brought a fairly lengthy hiatus to an end in August 2012.