#srxt

[sonarpup]

from A Weekend in the City (2007)

Lyrics & such below but this album has some amazing tracks and I highly recommend it as a whole. I listed some additional standout track/lines below

I'm sitting on the roof of my house With a shotgun And a six pack of beers Six pack of beers, six pack of beers The newscaster says "the enemy's among us" As bombs explode on the 30 bus Kill your middle class indecision Now is not the time for liberal thought So I go hunting for witches I go hunting for witches Heads are going to roll I go hunting for 90's, optimistic as a teen Now it's terror Airplanes crash into towers Into towers, into towers The Daily Mail says "the enemy's among us Taking our women and taking our jobs" All reasonable thought is being drowned out By the non-stop baying, baying, baying for blood I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires I watched TV, it informed me I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire There must be accountability Disparate and misinformed Fear will keep us all in place

It's not subtle, but it's not trying to be. I like the framing in the end of "I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires - I watched TV, it informed me I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire. There must be accountability".

Others from the album I think about a lot:

"Sunday" is maybe my favorite love song

When I'm with you I am calm A pearl in your oyster Head on my chest, a silent smile A private kind of happiness You see giant proclamations are all very well But our love is louder than words

"Where Is Home?" is crushing. One of Kele's close family friends was the victim of a racially-motivated murder in London.

So I just sigh, and I just sulk And I pretend that there's nothing wrong The teeth of this world tear me in half And everyday I must ask myself where?

"SRXT" is an amazing end to the album - a note about ending, and an implied beginning

Like a castaway on a warm ocean Waiting for a purpose to rise They say it's not becoming For a boy my age If you want to know what makes me sad Well it's hope, the endurance of faith A battle that lasts a lifetime A fight that never ends

[we-are-houseguest]

"i remember moments of happiness; endless summer, acoustic guitars" - SRXT, bloc party

hello again!

today we're gonna talk about my guitars for the new ep! buckle up, this is gonna be a long one.

first off, i've done a about half of this ep on my stock fender classic player jaguar special hh. it's a 24" scale and it's actually tuned b to b and it sounds SO good. like. it's kind of unreal how well it holds a baritone tuning. generally, i have the neck pickup rolled off to coil split (i generally don't love a neck humbucker, honestly) and the bridge is whatever it needs to be, song by song. i don't really use the tremolo arm ever unless i'm just messing around - i try to put this thing out of tune as little as possible during a show. this guitar can do ANYTHING. it's so tonally versatile it's fucking stupid, truly. i am a lucky girl to own this.

next up is the other half: my squier classic vibe baritone custom telecaster! this is also tuned b to b, but it's got a 27" scale, so it's got a much more traditional baritone sound. i have always always ALWAYS loved the versatility of a telecaster and when they put out an affordable baritone version, it was an absolute no-brainer for me. i love the range and the tonal differences that a baritone brings to indie music - thrice is one of my favourite bands of all time, and their use of baritones (and their gear in general [duh, for those in the know]) REALLY inspired me. i've been using this on a lot of the really wet stuff and the really clean stuff, but also just for some stereo guitars to lean into some tonal differences or just because it flat out feels right. i love this thing, too. it really is so flexible and fun to play (and it weighs NOTHING, which is kind of unique for a tele lol). i've replaced the output jack and jack plate and i've flipped the control panel because i'm notorious for punching my pickup selector while playing.

both guitars are strung with d'addario medium baritone strings (.14-.68).

finally, for amps and pedals... well. the future is here and i, for one, welcome our modeller overlords.

this is gonna seem like a lie based on what you're looking at here, but i'm really pretty simple with my setups - i am a set it and forget it kind of woman.

for rhythm parts, i am using a fawn vox ac30 (blue alnico) and a fender deluxe reverb (oxford) in tandem, generally being pushed by an earthquaker pillars and an xotic ep booster (bruises uses a klon, just depends on the kind of push i need). little bit of compression with the xotic sp compressor, then, as necessary for wetter parts: line 6 echo park, line 6 space chorus, a boss ce-1, a boss ac-2 and a fender vibratone (lol). in terms of helix-only effects, i'm using the line 6 heliosphere delay and hot springs reverb.

for LEADS however, we're all over the place. all kinds of shit. i generally run a higher gain amp, like a bogner shiva (uberkab t75) or a marshall jcm-800 (jensen p12q [grammatico amp]/marshall basketweave g12 m25). I was actually really pleased with how good the shiva is for lead work in our sad queer indie rock songs - this is an amp that like alice and chains and korn use and it really adds the right amount of twinkle and beautiful bummer to our songs about autism and queerness and millennial disillusionment and i just think that's such a funny juxtaposition. anyways.

for taurus, i'm using the bogner and running the xotic ep booster again, way huge red llama, dunlop mxr timmy, mxr phase 90, and auto-volume echo from the line 6 dl4. simple stuff.

for re-run, i'm using the jcm-800 and pushing it with a tube screamer when it gets huge. boss tr-2, boss dm-2 with adrian mod, tc electronic 2290, tape eater from the line 6 mm4, simple tube comp, and the line 6 feedbacker. i also have a looper set up so I can include some post-rock tremolo picked yumminess without it taking up all my focus. this is definitely my most complex rig in the helix, but even still - not too wild. like i said. set it and forget it.

so yeah! that's pretty much it for my guitars this time around. i'm gonna guess that we'll do mj's guitars next but who knows! life is a mystery and it is for living! see y'all soon.

~ elizabeth

[d0gvi0]

Sisyphean Looming

1/4

[justthishumanheart]

Bloc Party - SRXT 

Being a man made me coarse When I wanted to be delicate

[sad-sappy-sucker]

Walking in the countryside

It seems that the winds have stopped

Tell my mother I am sorry

And I loved her

[princess-lilura]

Do you write romance. Do you ever srxt with some one

I do write romance 😍 well steamy romance to be exact

Sexting....absolutely but sexting for free? No 😂

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

I was tagged by @idmgoth, thank you :)

Rules: we’re snooping in your playlist! put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs and then choose 10 people 

菅野よう子 (Yōko Kanno) - Cket

The Walking Dead Season 2 OST - Previously (This is from the Telltale game, not the TV series)

Bloc Party - SRXT

Die Ärzte - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

S3rl - All That I Need (feat. Kayliane & MC Riddle)

Kettcar - Kommt Ein Mann In Die Bar

Rosenstolz - Ich Bin Ich (Wir Sind Wir)

Eleven Pond - Watching Trees

Die Orsons - Jetzt

The Busters feat. Farin Urlaub - Liebe Macht Blind

As usual, I tag everyone who wants to do this.

[toomanypronouns]

Being a man made me coarse when I wanted to be delicate.

Bloc Party, “SRXT,” A Weekend in the City (2007)

[mieczyhale]

➿➿➿ I'm on my phone, this is the closest I can get get to an infinity sign, send me song lyrics bitch 💖

put an “∞” in my ask & i’ll shuffle my music and give you my favorite lyric from whatever song comes up

All Alright - fun.“But I came back with the belief that everyone I love is gonna leave me”

SRXT - Bloc Party“A battle that lasts a lifetime, a fight that never ends”

Dissolve Me - alt j“She makes the sound, the sound the sea makes, to calm me down”

[ladydorian]

In order of appearance (with favorite song from the album):

Shiina Ringo - Shouso Strip - “Tsuki ni Makeinu”

MUCC - Shion - “Nuritsubusunara Enji”

Kenna - New Sacred Cow - “War in Me”

Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City - “Srxt”

NICO Touches the Walls - Passenger - “Passenger”

Galileo Galilei - Sea and the Darkness - “Ghost”

SUPER BEAVER - Mirai no Hajimekata - “Zero Kyori”

[Alexandros] - Sleepless in Brooklyn - “Fish Tacos Party”

BBHF - BBHF 1 - Young Man Goes South - “Crayon Missile”

I was tagged by @ithinkwehitametaphor to share my 9 favorite movies, but I don't really like movies (I'm a music gay), so here are 9 favorite albums (there are a lot more, but these stuck out the most). Thank u!! ^___^

[goneghostt-blog]

Srxt-Bloc Party

[narkusmaslund-blog]

Bloc Party - SRXT

If you want to know what makes me sad Well it’s hope, the endurance of faith A battle that lasts a lifetime A fight that never ends

[stainedglasssmile]

"If you want to know what makes me sad Well it's hope, the endurance of faith A battle that lasts a lifetime A fight that never ends" One of Bloc Party's lesser known tracks. Listened to it on my 3 am walk this morning.