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Intimacy

The third album, released digitally with three days' notice.
Bloc Party, 2008

Epworth and Lee each produced five of the original ten tracks, Epworth for live-band energy and Lee for electronic building, with more drum machines and distorted guitars than before. Alan Moulder mixed and Guy Davie mastered. A brass section and the Exmoor Singers of London appear. It reached 8 in the UK and 18 in the US with about 24,000 in the first week; singles were "Mercury" (UK 16) and "Talons" (UK 39). Metacritic scores it 69, with Rolling Stone's Kyle Anderson praising its vivid honesty and Pitchfork's Ian Cohen less receptive.

Track listing

  1. Ares3:30
  2. Mercury3:53
  3. Halo3:36
  4. Biko5:01
  5. Trojan Horse3:32
  6. Signs4:40
  7. One Month Off3:39
  8. Zephyrus4:35
  9. Talons4:43
  10. Better Than Heaven4:22
  11. Ion Square6:33

More from Bloc Party

Silent Alarm Remixed (2005), Silent Alarm (2005), Intimacy Remixed (2009), Hymns (2016), Alpha Games (2022), Anatomy Of A Brief Romance (2026)

Sources

  1. Intimacy (Bloc Party album), Wikipedia
  2. 30 things you never knew about Bloc Party, NME