Kele Okereke will release his first solo album The Boxer later this year.
The Boxer will be released on June 21, with the single ‘Tenderoni’ to be released a week earlier on June 14.
Speaking about the record, the Bloc Party frontman explained what it was like to work on his own for the first time, revealing: "It was just me and an engineer. I plugged in synths that I had no idea what they would do. I began programming drum beats, which I had never done before. It was completely back to the drawing board. It was exciting and terrifying. In most cases I sat down, pulled a drum beat out of nowhere and arranged stuff around that. This was as exciting to me as the first time I picked up a guitar.
"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."
The tracklisting for The Boxer is as follows:
‘Walk Tall’
‘On The Lam’
‘Tenderoni’
‘The Other Side’
‘Everything You Wanted’
‘New Rules’
‘Unholy Thoughts’
‘Rise’
‘All The Things I Could Never Say’
‘Yesterday’s Gone’
