Bloc Party - The Love Within video debuts today

Bloc Party today premiere the show stopping video for new single The Love Within. Shot in a north London shopping mall by award winning short film maker Ivana Bobic, the video was choreographed by Holly Blakely (Florence and the Machine, Jungle, Young Fathers) and features an array of performers compelled to dance by the song’s pulsating guitar riff. Watch The Love Within: http://smarturl.it/TheLoveWithinVideo

The Love Within is the first single to be lifted from Bloc Party’s forthcoming album HYMNS, due for release 29 January 2016 via Infectious Music / BMG in standard CD and digital formats, as well as deluxe CD and deluxe digital formats featuring four extra songs, and a limited edition double vinyl. The Love Within is available as an instant-grat to those pre-ordering the album on iTunes; it is also available to stream and download now.

• Pre-order HYMNS from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/HymnsIT / http://smarturl.it/HymnsDeluxeIT
• Pre-order HYMNS on CD: http://smarturl.it/HymnsCD
• Pre-order HYMNS on double vinyl: http://smarturl.it/HymnsLP

Bloc Party were this week announced as headliners of the NME Awards Tour 2016. The band play 11 dates in January and February with support from Drenge, Rat Boy and Bugzy Malone. Before then, they headline the Hostess Club Weekender in Japan, and Falls Festival in Australia this winter, and play a run of sold out intimate European shows in November-December.

All dates are below; see www.bloc.party for full details:

• 23 Nov - Hostess Club Weekender, Tokyo, JP
• 27 Nov - Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL - SOLD OUT
• 28 Nov - Live Music Hall, Koln, DE - SOLD OUT
• 29 Nov - Astra Kulturhaus, Berlin, DE - SOLD OUT
• 01 Dec - Alhambra, Paris, FR - SOLD OUT
• 02 Dec - Cirque Royal, Brussels, BL - SOLD OUT
• 03 Dec - Albert Hall, Manchester, UK - SOLD OUT
• 04 Dec - St John at Hackney, London, UK - SOLD OUT
• 30 Dec - Falls Festival, Lorne, AU
• 30 Dec - Falls Festival, Marion Bay, AU
• 01 Jan - Falls Festival, Byron Bay, AU
• 05 Jan - Forum Theatre, Melbourne, AU
• 07 Jan - Enmore Theatre, Sydney, AU
• 10 Jan - Southbound Festival, Perth, AU
• 29 Jan - Cardiff Great Hall*
• 30 Jan - O2 Guildhall Southampton*
• 01 Feb - O2 Academy Bristol*
• 02 Feb - Nottingham Rock City*
• 04 Feb - O2 Academy Newcastle*
• 05 Feb - Glasgow Barrowland*
• 06 Feb - Manchester Academy*
• 08 Feb - O2 Academy Leeds*
• 09 Feb - Cambridge Corn Exchange*
• 11 Feb - London O2 Academy Brixton*
• 12 Feb - O2 Academy Birmingham*

* NME Awards Tour 2016 headline shows