Sex Party

NYC comedy band Ninja Sex Party has but one goal: To take your body sweetly by the hand and then rock its face off with amazing music.

Sex worker, fashion designer, anti-censorship activist, fierce campaigner, political lobbyist and Member of Parliament - Fiona Patten's life has been nothing if not eventful.

On their sixth album, Bloc Party sound as vital and vibrant as on 2005's Silent Alarm, back during the "indie sleaze" era. Their latest is also as fun and high energy as that influential debut; if this were a person, you'd be suspicious they'd had cosmetic work done. The band continues to find inspiration in New Wave and art-school punk as singer Kele Okereke's big personality—that London accent as distinct as ever—tries on different guises. You can feel the angst as he rushes the verses of "Day Drinker," its sharp, crisp drums egging on the adrenaline release. Excellent single "Traps" layers edgy, nervous guitar and shotgun drums as the singer walks the line between louche and letch: "Cute like Bambi/ But you're headed to a trap … I wanna be your education/ I wanna be your contact high.