I didn’t listen to Silent Alarm in full until 2014. Why that is I’m not so sure, because I’d always liked (almost) every single that Bloc Party had released up until that point. When I eventually got around to it, bar the singles which are obvious high points from it, ‘Luno’ sounded immense right off the bat. The menacing bass and frantic drums from the start set a tempo and mood that can’t be found on another song on that record. Well, perhaps ‘Helicopter’. But even then, ‘Luno’ seems a lot darker in comparison.

It appears that the subject of a family dynamic of angsty rebellious teenager vs. confronting worrying parents is taken on this song from what I’ve seen. I was always busy singing along to it to really think on what it’s about. Plus, it’s quite hard to decipher anyway because of the changes of narrative voice. Thinking of it now, the teenager – who is the ‘Luno’ character – is tired of her parents and does whatever she wants. Typical teenager stuff. She comes back from a night out with a bloody nose and gets confronted by her parents, who then have those ‘where did we go wrong?’ moments and wish that things could back to when times were happier. It’s a song of anxiety, desperation and frustration, and those feelings are very much exuded from the ominous synthesizers, Okereke’s wails and the overall furious force of the song.

A lot of headbanging’s been done through the years to Matt Tong’s drumming performance on this one. There’s not one point on here where he plays a straight 4-4 rhythm without switching things up with a sudden strike on the high-hat or thunderous fills that build the track’s intensity. Even if you don’t admire the melody that much – I don’t see why you wouldn’t – you have to be in awe of the frenetic rhythms.