Bloc Party have shared another song from their upcoming sixth album, Alpha Games. The mid-tempo track, “Sex Magik,” sees frontman Kele Okereke reflecting on a past relationship.
“’Sex Magik’ is probably my favorite song on the record,” Okereke explained in a statement. “It’s about a memory that I’d completely forgotten that resurfaced a few years ago about a summer fling that I had. I was a teenager at the time and during that summer I felt like the veil had been lifted from my eyes. I saw the world in a completely different way. It was a short-lived affair but the effects of that summer have stayed with me for a lifetime.”
“Sex Magik” follows “The Girls are Fighting” and “Traps,” a hard-hitting alt-rock number that arrived back in November. “The Girls are Fighting,” the second single from Alpha Games, got a raucous music video set in London’s…
