{"id":2448352,"date":"2019-09-05T02:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T08:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=880295"},"modified":"2019-09-05T02:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T08:07:04","slug":"hear-bloc-partys-kele-okereke-preview-new-album-with-jungle-bunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-bloc-partys-kele-okereke-preview-new-album-with-jungle-bunny\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Bloc Party\u2019s Kele Okereke Preview New Album With \u2018Jungle Bunny\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/69414550_2720508871292768_1712925896442118144_o.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bloc-party\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bloc-party\" data-tag=\"bloc-party\">Bloc Party<\/a> frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kele-okereke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kele-okereke\" data-tag=\"kele-okereke\">Kele Okereke<\/a> has released a new single, \u201cJungle Bunny,\u201d ahead of his new album <em>2024<\/em>, which will drop November 8th via his own KOLA Records. The upbeat, pointed track tackles issues of race and responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a history of black entertainers feeling that after they have achieved a certain level of success that they are above discussions of race but that idea is a delusion,\u201d Okereke said in a statement. \u201cAs a person of color living in the Western world, it does not matter how much wealth one accumulates, race will follow you wherever you go. With \u2018Jungle Bunny\u2019 I wanted explore this idea: In a time of such rampant division and public racism, what is the responsibility of the black entertainer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okereke doesn\u2019t pull any punches in the lyrics, which confront modern anxieties about being black. He sings: \u201cHe\u2019s trying to run\/ He\u2019s trying to run to outrun a gun\/ He\u2019s got full \u2018Ye, and he\u2019s starting to feel like shit might pop off.\u201d He seems to be taking aim at Kanye West as he adds, \u201cYou go back to your home in Calabasas\/ With your wife and your kids\/ Safe in the knowledge\/ On a gated street\/ Where life is sweet\/ But no one looks like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album, a follow-up to the singer\u2019s 2017 album <em>Fatherland<\/em>, is available to <a href=\"https:\/\/kele.bandcamp.com\/album\/2042\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">preorder<\/a> on CD, digital and vinyl. Meanwhile, Bloc Party will be touring the U.S. this month around the anniversary of their album&nbsp;<em>Silent Alarm<\/em>. The short trek includes stops in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kele-okereke-jungle-bunny-880295\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has released a new single, \u201cJungle Bunny,\u201d ahead of his new album 2024, which will drop November 8th via his own KOLA Records. The upbeat, pointed track tackles issues of race and responsibility. \u201cThere is a history of black entertainers feeling that after they have achieved a certain level of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 07:36:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}