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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075678989520
Format: Enhanced
Label: Atlantic
Manufacturer: Atlantic
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Atlantic
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Studio: Atlantic
Sales Rank: 1121
MPN: 512336
Disc 1:- Ares
- Mercury
- Halo
- Biko
- Trojan Horse
- Signs
- One Month Off
- Zephyrus
- Talons
- Better Than Heaven
- Ion Square
- Letter To My Son
- Your Visits Are Getting Shorter
- Flux
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Following a long run of summer festivals and sold out tour dates,
Bloc Party brings us their newest studio effort. Intimacy is a fittingly
up-close title for an album that is, immediately, in-your-face and
in-your-ear. Bloc Party's third album is a thrillingly radical record,
bristling with percussive innovation, scorching riffs, orchestral
sampledelia, and biting emotional candor.
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Bloc Party fans have awaited the arrival of Intimacy, the band's third studio LP, with a mix of excitement and trepidation. Where their debut Silent Alarm (produced by Paul Epworth) was universally touted as a modern classic, 2007's follow up, A Weekend in the City, was patchier. Intimacy is helmed by both Lee and Epworth. Its brittle contours, mish-mash of influences, and semi-awkward lyrics are quintessential Bloc Party. Mixing up everything from micro-house and dub-step, to indie rock and electro pop, there's a willful energy here reminiscent of the band's debut (though the spikier elements are more reminiscent of of AWITC. Opening cut "Ares" sets out the band's stall with a bombastic brew of high-energy drums, preening guitars, and urgent sirens, while upbeat lead single "Mercury," employs a quirky astrological motif. These prove to be the most charged tracks on the record as elsewhere the band indulges in choral-chanting and strings ("Zephyrus"), angsty art-rock ("Halo") and a surprisingly uplifting finale in the shape of "Ion Square." Intimacy is predictably unpredictable: knowingly difficult, defiantly angular, yet eminently likeable.--Danny McKenna
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Bloc Party's 2005 debut album "Silent Alarm" was almost universally hailed as an 'instant classic', which may or may not have been a good thing for the band. It certainly created huge expectations for the band's subsequent releases. 2007's "A Weekend in the City" was, not surprisingly, received skeptically as it wasn't "Silent Alarm 2". Only 18 months later comes the next album from "Bloc Party".
"Intimacy" (14 tracks, including 3 bonus tracks; 61 min.) opens with an earth-shattering ... Read More
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I was fondly hoping that this album make up for the previous, A Weekend In The City, which was somewhat a letdown in my opinion. After having listened to Intimacy the first couple of times I wasn't that convinced of the album. Nevertheless, a couple of listens later, I felt that the album grew on me, rendering me now obliged to say that, in my opinion, this is their best album yet and possibly one of the best albums in general.
About the album itself can be said a few things. It seems as the ... Read More
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I do enjoy the fact that Bloc Party has changed their style from album to album. Weekend in the City took me a quite a long time to really enjoy, so I have been working hard to see if this album is any good. I have had Intimacy for about a week and half now, and have about 15 or so listens on it. It is good, kind of melancholy but I don't think it is ever going blow me away like their previous albums have. If you want some solid good music, then you should get this and listen too it for a while. If ... Read More
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I always liked Bloc Party but I LOVE this release. "Intimacy" is the perfect mix of rock and electronics. The sound is very sophisticated without sounding stuffy. There is definately a cold feeling to this CD which seems to be a theme that permeates popular music right now (see Kanye's 808's). The production is very crisp and there are so many layers to the music that on repeated listens you will unearth sounds that you might have overlooked before. Definately in my top 5 albums of 2008.
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I had read some not so great reviews of this album on Pitchfork and the like. Really glad that they were listening to a different album because what I hear is a perfect balance between the first two Bloc Party releases. It's worth it for the song "Signs" alone. Beautiful.
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