Watch: Bloc Party performs 'Banquet' at Tiny Desk concert
The song appears on their debut album, Silent Alarm, which dropped in 2005.
Their set list also included "Signs" and "Mercury," which appear on their 2008 album Intimacy, and "Blue," from their 2023 EP, The High Life.
Lead vocalist Kele Okereke played guitar alongside Russell Lissack.
Harry Deacon and Louise Bartle provided background vocals, with Deacon on bass, keyboard and glockenspiel, and Bartle on drums.
"This is a big deal for us, you know," Okereke said between songs. "NPR has introduced me to so much great music."
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