More Bloc Party

Bloc Party was built for remix collections. That production sensibility—precise, angular, all space and structure—is basically an invitation for other artists to step in and rebuild it. When their third comp came around, I was just curious who they’d picked. Armand Van Helden taking on Signs was the first single, and it does that thing remix comps do best: the original melody stays intact but everything else gets dismantled and reconstructed into something that lives in a different headspace entirely. I remember a Blue Light remix doing the same thing well.

The video for this version is strange. Not in a way that makes sense immediately, but in a way that makes you watch it again.