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Break out your dancing shoes, because one of the best new bands of the past two years is already recording another album. NME.com reports that England's Bloc Party, already on a seemingly endless world tour, has no less than 25 songs in various stages of being.

Guitarist Russell Lissack tells the online mag that the Party have "recorded two [possible] songs but we still need to mix them and finish them, so we're not sure which one's going to be the single just yet." The contenders thus far are "Hero" and "Two More Years".

All these songs to come, all these singles in the works, and Bloc Party haven't even finished releasing singles off their first driving, kick-ass album, Silent Alarm. The newest, "The Pioneers", is out this week in the UK. They're recording their new album at Jacobs Studios in Surrey, England. And they're in the middle of an extensive world tour that'll finish in London in October. Where do these guys find the time? Dates:

07-20 Melbourne, Australia - Hi-Fi Bar
07-21 Sydney, Australia - The Metro
07-24 Byron Bay, Australia - Splendour in the Grass Festival
08-13 Osaka, Japan - SummerSonic Festival
08-14 Tokyo, Japan - SummerSonic Festival
08-26 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-28 Reading, England - Reading Festival
09-04 Bologna, Italy - Independent Days Festival
10-02 Edinburgh, Scotland - Usher Hall
10-04 Glasgow, Scotland - Carling Academy
10-05 Middlesbrough, England - Town Hall
10-06 Newcastle, England - Northumbria University
10-08 Cambridge, England - Corn Exchange
10-09 Norwich, England - UEA
10-10 Portsmouth, England - Guild Hall
10-12 Sheffield, England - Octagon
10-13 Birmingham, England - Carling Academy
10-14 Birmingham, England - Carling Academy
10-16 Nottingham, England - Rock City
10-17 Liverpool, England - Royal Court
10-18 Leeds, England - University
10-20 Manchester, England - Apollo
10-21 Manchester, England - Apollo
10-22 Leicester, England - De Montford Hall
10-24 Cardiff, Wales - University
10-25 Bristol, England - Carling Academy
10-26 Exeter, England - University
10-28 London, England - Brixton Carling Academy
10-29 London, England - Brixton Carling Academy
11-06 Belfast, Ireland - Ulster Hall
11-07 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia
11-10 Brussels, Belgium - Les Halles De Schaerbeek
11-11 Lille, France - Aeronef
11-12 Strasbourg, France - Salle des Fetes
11-14 Paris, France - Zenith
11-15 Nantes, France - La Carriere
11-16 Bordeaux, France - Le Vigean
11-18 Madrid, Spain - Aqualung
11-19 Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz
11-25 Zurich, Switzerland - Earshakerdays Festival
11-27 Stuttgart, Germany - Longhorn
11-28 Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp
11-29 Dresden, Germany - Alter Schlachthof
12-01 Bielefeld, Germany - Ringlokschuppen
12-02 Dusseldorf, Germany - Tor 3
12-03 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso

Meanwhile, while they're stopping to take a breath, Bloc Party's official website reports they're slated to perform live on XFM's X-Posure on July 19. Get the little headphones out.

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