Song · Bloc Party
“Flux” by Bloc Party
Released 2007
“Flux” by Bloc Party appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2007 and 2008. It was first released in 2007. Its best result is #32 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #318 alternative song of 2008.
After their sets at the Reading and Leeds festivals, Bloc Party spent a week in the studio with Jacknife Lee, and "Flux" was one of the new songs that came out of it, released as a single on Wichita on November 12, 2007. It's the band gone electric in the other sense: mostly electronic instruments, Kele Okereke's voice bent through Auto-Tune, and Lee producing, mixing and adding keyboards himself, with Sam Bell recording. The writing credit is split among Okereke, Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong.
It hit number 8 on the UK singles chart, their fourth UK top 10, and one of its CDs came free with the November 14 issue of NME. It later turned up on the reissue of A Weekend in the City and on the North American edition of Intimacy.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 48 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007 | 100 |
| 2008 | 32 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2008 | 88 |
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