With Bloc Party on hiatus, frontman Kele Okereke is striking out on his own. On June 21 in the UK and June 22 in the U.S., Kele (now just going by his first name) will release The Boxer, his solo debut, via Wichita/Polydor and Glassnote in North America, South America, Southeast Asia, and South Africa.
For The Boxer, Kele teamed up with Spank Rock producer XXXChange to make an album of electronic pop. In a press release about the album, Kele said, "The key for the sound of the record was to take things as harsh and as physical as I could make it. The reason for going there was that these are the sounds that make me the happiest in the world."
"Tenderoni", the first single, drops June 14. And even though we haven't heard anything from The Boxer yet, solo Kele already has a website, a blog, a Twitter, a MySpace, and a Facebook page. He's socially connected! Starting this May, he'll play shows around Europe. Below, we've got the tracklist for The Boxer and Kele's tourdates.
The Boxer tracklist:
01 Walk Tall
02 On the Lam
03 Tenderoni
04 The Other Side
05 Everything You Wanted
06 New Rules
07 Unholy Thoughts
08 Rise
09 All the Things I Could Never Say
10 Yesterday's Gone
Tour dates:
05-14 Limerick, Ireland - Dolans
05-15 Cork, Ireland - Cyprus Avenue
05-16 Dublin, Ireland - The Academy
05-17 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Spring and Airbrake
05-20 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk (Electronic Beats)
05-21 Hamburg, Germany - Prinzenbarhalle
05-22 Berlin, Germany - Weekend Club
06-12 Manchester, England - Warehouse Project Fest
07-16 Ferropolis, Germany - Melt Festival
08-27 Paris, France - Rock En Seine
08-28 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-29 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-31 Ibiza, Spain - Ibiza Rocks
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I'm so excited about this, I like Tenderoni already. I like electronic Bloc Party more as well, I know a lot of people didn't like Intimacy because of that. I'm also really in love with his voice.
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