Bloc Party have already released one of the albums of 2005 with their debut Silent Alarm, but Silent Alarm Remixed really is something else: a full-blooded re-imagining of their debut. It’s vibrant, and exciting…which kinda makes it like the band’s debut.

Following in the same order as their debut, Silent Alarm Remixed kicks off with Ladyton’s Zapatista remix of “Like Eating Glass”, where they layer Kele Okereke’s voice in swathes of sounds, hiding it behind a light beat and bank of cloudy production. It gives no indication of what’s to come – Silent Alarm Remixed is all over the shop, with each individual artist bringing their own thing to the table.

As such, Phones (a.k.a. producer Paul Epworth, who handled the original thing) disco up “Banquet” to disturbingly camp effect, while Death From Above 1979 don’t remix but instead re-record “Luno”. Elsewhere, moody nü-shoegazer group Engineers do wonderful things to “Blue Light”, doubling, tripling and then stripping back Kele’s voice, while Mogwai completely alter “Plans” to the point where it’s unrecognisable.

Bloc Party may be an indie act without rock star poses, and so too is their choice of remixers – none of the names on Silent Alarm Remixed are really from the dance world, with Four Tet the best know electronic artist to mix “So Here We Are”, but Kieron Hebdon ain’t exactly the Chemical Brothers; as witnessed by this remix, he’s so much more interesting than that.

Rock names like Nick Zinner from Yeah Yeah Yeahs sit alongside the likes of French sound collagist M83. The energy level is remarkably different; gone is the urgent whir and buzz, replaced instead by the comedown after the thrill of these track’s original versions. Occasionally that can lead to a sense of this being a passionless release, but it’s certainly a vastly different one.