Bloc Party’s third album, Intimacy will be available August 21. It can be pre-ordered now via the band’s website: http://www.blocparty.com
The album will also be available as a CD which will be delivered from October 27 and feature additional songs. Anyone pre-ordering the CD will also receive the digital album from August 21.
Bloc Party alerted fans to Intimacy’s existence, as well as their ability to purchase the record instantly, when they hosted their first ever web chat on August 18. The album follows on from the release of their hit single ‘Mercury’ released on 11 August.
The album produced by Paul Epworth (Silent Alarm) and Jacknife Lee (A Weekend in the City) was recorded in Kent and London. Some songs are Bloc Party at their most wildly experimental, while other tracks are simply classic Bloc Party, fitting in seamlessly amongst fan-favourites ‘Helicopter’, ‘Banquet’ and ‘So Here We Are’.
Bloc Party recently played a run of sold-out American shows and are due to play Reading and Leeds Festival this weekend and headline the Hydroconnect Festival on August 30.
August
23 – Reading Festival, Reading
24 – Leeds Festival, Leeds
30 – Hydroconnect Festival, Scotland (win tickets here)
The track listing for Intimacy:
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
August 19th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I think that by listening to “Sunday” from A Weekend in the City you can perhaps understand why this new album is called Intimacy. I loved both Bloc Party albums, and I especially liked the fact that the AWITC is constructed like a document of what it’s like to live in the UK today, just like Capture/Release by The Rakes, another great album.
I had no idea this was coming around so soon, but I’m really looking forward to it now, Bloc Party have become one of my most-listened bands in recent months.