One song I’m really loving at the moment is Hunting for Witches by Bloc Party. It is of course, off the second album ‘A Weekend in the City’ which was released back in February and that I have incredibly still not listened to, despite being a great fan of the first album.

I have indeed been afraid to listen to the album, with warnings from my friends of it not being a nearly as good an album as the first. However, it’s inevitable that I will hear a few songs from it. Indeed, I haven’t managed to avoid hearing the singles I Still Remember, The Prayer and Hunting for Witches.

For some reason I find Hunting for Witches a much more enjoyable listen than the other two. It may be the great, catchy riff. It could be the disjointed jittering soundscape at the start. It could even be Kele Okereke’s infectious tones. Most likely though, it’s the sublime joining together of all the disparate elements signified at the start into a cohesive whole.

That cohesive whole is so powerful, so magnificent, that I just can’t escape from it. “I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire” sings Kele with such conviction that you just can’t help notice how far from the truth that now is.

Indeed, this song is far from ordinary. Sharp electronic guitars clash with sharp synthesizer tones as Kele’s elegant voice pierces through the very foundations of the song. When all seems to be approaching order and rock familiarity, the disparate tones from the start burst back into life.

Bloc Party is definitely far from ordinary, yet this song somehow manages to blend ordinary with extraordinary to achieve an anthem for modern life, something Bloc Party always seems to be particularly adept at.