New Bloc Party album <em>Intimacy</em> gets surprise release this Thursday

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New Bloc Party album <em>Intimacy</em> gets surprise release this Thursday

Bloc Party made the surprise announcement today that their third album titled Intimacy will be released on Thursday (August 21) via their website. The band let the cat out of the bag during their only interview this year in a fan webchat on blocparty.com.

The band are offering the choice of paying either £5 for a high-quality mp3 bundle (to be delivered on August 21), £8 for a CD (to be delivered on October 27), or £10 for a combined order of both CD and mp3 bundle. The CD release of ‘Intimacy’ will include additional tracks unavailable on the mp3 bundle release. It can be pre-ordered here.

Intimacy was recorded in two separate sessions with both Paul Epworth and Jacknife Lee.

Tracklisting

01 Ares
02 Mercury
03 Halo
04 Biko
05 Trojan Horse
06 Signs
07 One Month Off
08 Zephyrus
09 Better Than Heaven
10 Ion Square

Bloc Party – ‘Mercury’

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Phil

This is all getting a bit mad.
http://www.myspace.com/lpxireland Leigh O’Gorman

didn’t see this coming… yet
http://www.okeydokefootball.blogspot.com johnjoe

Hopefully it’ll be a return to form, wasn’t crazy on A Weekend in the City at all, far less engaging that the debut. Mercury is a damn good start though.
http://egoeccentric.blogspot.com/ Clockwork Rob

Wasn’t mad on Weekend in the City myself at first, but it really grew on me.

It’s one of the few occasions where I can sit there just listening to the production all the way through and still be terribly entertained. Jacknife Lee is a genius!
http://astonishingsodape.blogspot.com/ AstonishingSodApe

Strange that Kele stopped badmouthing Radiohead in the months leading up to their “surprise release” of their latest album in a digital pre-release! Jeez. The last Bloc Party album was mostly crap and it looks like he still hasn’t quite managed to make his vocal lines less grating. Let’s hope this a vast improvement. At least Mercury is good enough from 3:10 onwards.
Ken

everything they have done so far has been fantastic including the “flux” single… however the jury is still out on the new Mercury single…
http://www.state.ie Niall Byrne

New song Trojan Horse on myspace

http://www.myspace.com/blocparty
http://astonishingsodape.blogspot.com/ AstonishingSodApe

Now that’s MUCH more like it! That riff towards the end, over those beats – wicked. Hope springs eternal. More of this “Trojan Horse” stuff please Bloc Party.