With ‘The Girls Are Fighting’, BLOC PARTY will release the second track on Friday, January 28th, 2022 from their sixth studio album ‘Alpha Games’ (Infectious / BMG), which will follow on April 29. ‘Alpha Games’ is the band’s first studio album since their 2016 long-player ‘Hymns’. The band continues their return to their classic sound with the new song, which follows the rather rough and loud ‘Traps’ from November last year. In ‘The Girls Are Fighting’, Kele Okereke recounts a night when everything went so badly wrong: “And the bouncer also made a film of it and uploaded it to Worldstar. There’s blood all over the dance floor, hairpieces on the bar.”Speaking about the making of the song, Kele says: “There wasn’t one specific incident that inspired me to write this song - it was more a mixture of many things I’ve seen in clubs over the years when two love rivals meet are advised. Moments like this have always fascinated me. It’s like a fuse being lit - words become actions, which in turn lead to violence. Such moments reveal a lot about who people really are. I think ‘The Girls Are Fighting’ is kind of self-explanatory - someone sold someone else’s dreams who shouldn’t have and it’s catching up to them now. I just wanted to capture a snapshot of an evening at a sweaty nightclub, where you go from zero to a hundred for nothing. I’m really happy with the arrangement of the song because it has that 1970s Glam Rock meets ADAM ANT feel to it. I just love what Louise does with the tom-toms.”
The new single is accompanied by a stirring video of the band playing at the legendary Repton Boxing Club - an old Victorian bathhouse converted into a boxing club in London's Bethnal Green where the Kray twins used to train. You can watch the video, directed by Cameron Ward and produced by Luke Filz here:
Source: Press Release
