Bloc Party - Flux Video and Lyrics
Flux by Bloc Party, Music Video and Lyrics
“Flux” is a song by Bloc Party that was released November 12, 2007 (2007-11-12). It was produced by Jacknife Lee, along with several other new songs, during the band’s week in the studio after Reading and Leeds gigs. The song uses mostly electronic instruments and has Kele’s voice manipulated through auto-tune. It was first performed live September 26 at Covington’s Madison Theater.
Here’s the official video of the song, sorry but I think it kinda sucks. 
The video for the song was directed by video director Ace Norton, who has previously directed videos for The Willows, Norah Jones and Death Cab for Cutie. The video was published on NME on October 17, 2007. It uses strange special effects like using toys and model like buildings reminiscient of the Beastie Boys music video Intergalactic. It shows two giant silver robots falling in love while other monsters and robots destroy the city they are in.
The video was filmed over two days in Boston with American performance troupe Kaiju Big Battel. Some of the Kaiju (Japanese for ’strange beast’) characters in the video are The Grudyin, Unibouzo, Vegetius, Giii the Space Pirate and Steam-Powered Tentacle Boulder (the newest Kaiju Hero).
Bloc Party - Flux Lyrics
If your right hand is causing you pain
Cut it off, cut it off
If your colours have started to run
Let them all run, run away from you
There is lightning in this room
Above our heads, waiting to strike
I’m a thinker not a talker
Put your faith, your faith in God
We were hoping for some romance
All we found was more despair
We must talk about our problems
We are in a state of flux
I’d kill for an adventure
Just you and I, in the Curzon Bar
Dancing till we knew
So all that we’ve learnt disappears
When you shouted at me
I saw my father in the second grade
Concerned and kind
Yet unable to reach me
We were hoping for some romance
All we found was more despair
We must talk about our problems
We are in a state of flux
(State of flux)
We need to talk
We were hoping for some romance
All we found was more despair
We must talk about our problems
We are in a state of flux
Bloc Party - Flux Song Info
Released November 12, 2007 (2007-11-12)
Recorded 2007 at The Garage
Genre Alternative rock, Art Rock, Electro, Dance
Length 3:39
Label Witchita - WEBB135
Writer Bloc Party
Producer Jacknife Lee
source wikipedia.com
Bloc Party - Flux Review
Bloc Party, previously Britain’s ‘most indie’ of indie bands have gone disco. Well, almost. It’s no disco-ball, glitter-spilling, Kylie-esque boogie. And there’s a distinct lack of flares. But other than that, Kele Okereke and co have thrown themselves into the whole Saturday Night Fever thing and replaced their shoe-gazing Sonic Youth guitar shredding for a four-to-the-floor beat and a bucket-load of robotic vocals. It’s a far cry from the “University Challenge” students that Liam Gallagher derided on debut album Silent Alarm.
Matt Tong sounds like he’s ditched his drumsticks and kit for a pair of spanners and selection of glass windows, while Kele has clearly been brushing up on his Kylie back catalogue and is panting heavily and giving it the whole husky, sexy pop-God thing. The rest of the band launch a tirade of piercing sonic guitars over a rumbling, super-speed electro-beat and the overall effect should be enough to cause spontaneous robot-dancing around every indie-disco in the land. Plus the drum solo at the end sounds like a sped-up version of ‘Blue Monday’. Which is always ace.
review by digitalspy.co.uk
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November 20th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Is this from a new album? I wasn’t too keen on the last LP. Still not seen these guys live either. The shame.