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Bloc Party shocked us all by (what we shall call from now on) doing a Radiohead and announcing that their album Intimacy will be available in the digital world TOMORROW (at 9am BST). I, for one — though I KNOW I’m not alone — am extremely excited for the album; I just can’t wait to knit-pick at every fucking flaw, and still love it 6 months later.
Needless to say, I almost pissed my pants when MFR posted the mp3 to “Trojan Horse,” which was previously only available via My(suck)space. Listen away and count the minutes until you can download Intimacy off some blog off Bloc Party’s official site, legally, of course.
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sweet song!
is Sebastien Tellier’s L’amour et la Violence (Boys Noize Remix) posted on this blog too because i can’t find it.
Joy was found in Silent Alarm, but only boredom in “Weakend”, Intimacy is at least…interesting, it does not suck, on the Pitchfork scale I would say 7.5, they at least attempt some different territory, even if they are not always successful, it is still better than the breathy drone of the second album, the stand-alone single from earlier in the year Flux should def be on Intimacy, it would have started the album out on the right note. Overall Silent Alarm is still amazing, the shouting anthems are missed, Blue Light is great, but that should not be the formula for every future song.
Anyway, this album:
Ares will make for a good remix (”First person singular!”)(MSTRKRFT again please), Mercury is still not a very good song, Halo, One Month Off, and Trojan Horse are the stand-outs and feature the guitar that BP are oh so good at, Biko and Zepherus are yawners, Better Than Heaven and Signs are decent album tracks that could have used better placement on the album, and the closer Ion Square sounds like a techno remix of a Weekend b-side, no thank you.
I’m not liking it so far. Interesting is about as good as it’s going to get
wellll….i don’t know if this album’s gonna be good…..
1st 2 of theirs were great though
anythings better than Weekend, I’m not mad at this track.