Intimacy (Special Edition With Bonus Tracks)
Artist: Bloc Party
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- Play.com Review
Bloc Party make a rapturous return with their third full-length album, Intimacy. Continuing to stretch the boundaries of indie rock with their eclectic mix of angular sonic synths and delicate pop structures, Bloc Party present in Intimacy a confident album that is brimming with intellect and originality.
Combining the jittery art rock of their debut album, Silent Alarm, with the fuller soundscapes of A Weekend In The City, Intimacy sees Bloc Party deliver an album that blends electronic broken beats with shredding guitar lines and powerful melodies. The opening tracks of `Ares' and single `Mercury' are synth laden, heavy songs in which Bloc Party venture in to a new drum and bass inspired sound. Continuing lyrically with themes introduced in its predecessors, Intimacy sees singer and chief songwriter Kele Okereke express his brooding tales of anxiety, desire, and frustration with distinctive and layered vocals. As Intimacy progresses in a surge of delayed guitar riffs and complex drumming patterns, Bloc Party's familiar sound surfaces. The closing tracks of `Better Than Heaven' and `Ion Square' are signature Bloc Party slow-burners that, much like Silent Alarm's standout single `So Here We Are', smoulder with lyrical sensitivity and climax with crashing finales.
Co-produced by the previous albums' respective producers, Jacknife Lee and Paul Epworth, Intimacy has the raw feel of a live album teamed with precise and intriguing instrumental structures. By fusing the technical, fast, heavy guitar work of Silent Alarm with the brooding exploring songs of A Weekend In The City, Bloc Party have delivered with Intimacy an album that progresses from their familiar sound to ambitiously break genre confinements.
- Ares
- Mercury
- Halo
- Biko
- Trojan Horse
- Signs
- One Month Off
- Zephyrus
- Talons
- Better Than Heaven
- Ion Square
- Letter To My Son (Bonus Track)
- Your Visits Are Getting Shorter (Bonus Track)
- Play.com Review
Bloc Party make a rapturous return with their third full-length album, Intimacy. Continuing to stretch the boundaries of indie rock with their eclectic mix of angular sonic synths and delicate pop structures, Bloc Party present in Intimacy a confident album that is brimming with intellect and originality.
Combining the jittery art rock of their debut album, Silent Alarm, with the fuller soundscapes of A Weekend In The City, Intimacy sees Bloc Party deliver an album that blends electronic broken beats with shredding guitar lines and powerful melodies. The opening tracks of `Ares' and single `Mercury' are synth laden, heavy songs in which Bloc Party venture in to a new drum and bass inspired sound. Continuing lyrically with themes introduced in its predecessors, Intimacy sees singer and chief songwriter Kele Okereke express his brooding tales of anxiety, desire, and frustration with distinctive and layered vocals. As Intimacy progresses in a surge of delayed guitar riffs and complex drumming patterns, Bloc Party's familiar sound surfaces. The closing tracks of `Better Than Heaven' and `Ion Square' are signature Bloc Party slow-burners that, much like Silent Alarm's standout single `So Here We Are', smoulder with lyrical sensitivity and climax with crashing finales.
Co-produced by the previous albums' respective producers, Jacknife Lee and Paul Epworth, Intimacy has the raw feel of a live album teamed with precise and intriguing instrumental structures. By fusing the technical, fast, heavy guitar work of Silent Alarm with the brooding exploring songs of A Weekend In The City, Bloc Party have delivered with Intimacy an album that progresses from their familiar sound to ambitiously break genre confinements.
Average rating (4 reviews)
Maybe the best they've done, great range of songs, fantastic vocals and some killer guitar riffs and the songs will be stuck in your head for ages!
P.s. Best song is signs.
Always loved bloc party from silent alarm (original and remix) to weekend in the city to this true fan for now and always, keep up the good work :d
I was never the hugest fan of bloc party until this album was just released, and i was watching them play live at leeds festival. They blew me away, and the moment i returned home i downloaded this album, and it did the same thing.
On first listen, i wasn't that impressed. It was good, but not great. But on second listen, i realised how amazing it is.
Ares is the perfect opening, incorporating elements of big-beat. The first single mercury was a huge grower - i went from hating it to loving it.
Other standout tracks include halo, which sounds like a silent alarm track, signs which is beautiful and the newly released single talons, which is a brilliant addition to the album.
You've done it again bloc party!
Bloc Party, have done it once again. This new album is a mixture of styles from Silent Alarm and Weekend In The City, very easy listen and some very good songs such as Mecury, Ares, Signs, One Month Off and Better Than Heaven. The album is extremly good and defiantley worth the money!!
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