Bloc Party to drop single releases

• 28th Oct 2008

Bloc Party have floated the idea of no longer releasing CD singles, making “Talons” their last.

The band have said the move is being considered as chart positions are not important to them and so physical releases may be a thing of the past.

“I think the days are gone where you can really make a splash in the charts, being a band like us. Music was never a competition. One decision might be to not get involved in that and put out non-eligible things on purpose,” Bloc Party's Gordon Moakes tells BBC 6 music.

Moakes added that album releases will not be affected by the decision, “it's still an event to put out a record. We're still vinyl fans. With the last record we put out a picture disc. All this extra stuff that's dying out, we're still into as a band.”