Bloc Party's third: Intimacy out this week
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Bloc Party will make their third album available to the public, digitally, on August 21. That's this week, on Thursday, for the more calendar-challenged amongst you.
The album - the follow-up to the four-piece's DiS-rated A Weekend In The City (review) - can be pre-ordered from the band's official website. If you're amongst the hardcore, click here. Its title: Intimacy.
The physical CD version of the album will be available on October 27, with bonus material - those who pre-order the CD can get themselves the download for no extra cost on August 21.
Intimacy's tracklisting runs as follows:
1) 'Ares'
2) 'Mercury'
3) 'Halo'
4) 'Biko'
5 'Trojan Horse'
6) 'Signs'
7) 'One Month Off'
8) 'Zephyrus'
9) 'Better Than Heaven'
10) 'Ion Square'
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oh gosh
judging by those titles, mercury wasn't a one off :S
what a cunt you are
he merely expressed an opinion that the titles suggest the songs might be like mercury and you abuse him. fuck off you cock.
Wouch!
That's how to do a radiohead ladies and gents. i expected better from dis... not one mention of squinty eye bloke.
I still like Bloc Party
so I'm going to pre-order this, even though I haven't heard 'Mercury'
i still like them a bit
and i will certainly listen to this album, but pay for a download, i will not.
Correction
You don't get the download for no extra cost - it's £8 for the CD or £10 for CD+download.
I'm actually looking forward to it though. Unlike, it would seem, the majority of people here.
ok
have preordered, with the idea that we'd be able to listen in the car on the way to leeds...
Only to find out it won't be available until 7pm! FFS - if the idea was to launch prior to reading and leeds to get people excited that's fucking backfired, hasn't it? I'm now quite pissed off and feel like i've wasted a tenner.
i completely agree
was in exactly the same boat and immediately asked for a refund - I wouldn't feel so cheated if it wasn't for the fact they only told you after 7pm before you part with your cash
update
I just checked the order tracking and they've changed the download time to 9am on Thursday - it seems it was just a genuine mistake and they've changed the time.
Oh God, neither will I
If that single with the robots in the video hadn't happened, I'd be more robust in my liking
oooh
i'm relatively excited
^
compared to what?!?
hooray!
genuine mistake my arse though - they've obviously been hammered with a deluge of complaints and criticisms on messageboards like this. :)
cos they're not actually
'doing a radiohead'?
yes - i meant meant to "relatively"!
and i agree, that it's basically a model with different prices for different options. i don't think the timing with reading/leeds is a coincidence though - the reading show last year was HUGE for them, they pulled the biggest crowd of the weekend, and, in general, really connected with the audience in a way I've not seen them do at any of their other festivals/shows (and I've seen them 5-6 times now)
I'm going to buy this
even if A Weekend In The City was utter wank.
don't see how it would be
you cunt
Have ordered the CD + download
it better piss all over Weekend in the City.
do you think
they named it after that corrs' song?
i am very intrigued.
indeed
I'm not going anywhere near this album
untill I have heard lots of it and I can safely say it isn't as annoying as Mercury. I trusted Bloc Party with my cash on the second album and look what they went and did with it...
I wonder how much new stuff
we can expect at Reading. Not much I'm guessing, if it's released on thursday, when most weekend people will already be there!
I'll probably order the combined online download and CD. Mercury was OK, I'd rather they tried to push their sound forward than stood still.
For the record AWITC > Silent Alarm.
I am too
I loved AWITCq
Trojan Horse
is up on their MySpace. A damn sight better than Mercury, which let's call a spade a spade - is gashtastic. Reminiscent of Prayer and by the end sounds like BP of old, but i still have a cavalcade of doubts over the quality of the album.
I have a fair degree
of confidence it'll be a polished turd. And you know what happens when someone tries that. I think the problem is that the lead singer thinks he's insightful: he's not, he's just someone who takes an interest in the world. He has no great intelligence or musical insight but he has a ridiculous ego. The hubris will probably cost the excellent other members of the band on this record.
Mercury was abysmal.
I prefer it
Simple as that really. I never got on 100% with Silent Alarm, but AWITC hits the spot. Despite the highly pretentious lyrics. In fact some of the lyrics are ridiculous. Still love it thought.
I'm also enjoying Trojan Horse as well.
If that looked out of context
it was in reply to electricecho's comment earlier!
Trojan Horse
is a win for me, bloc party by numbers, but still great.
Im looking forward to the album, but not to having to skip Mercury everytime.
GET
IN!
Mercury
is absolutely brilliant. I hate "old Bloc Party" stuff, so I may actually buy this album if it's all in the Mercury vein, or at least download it illegally.
suck my ballz
its a good single... it's quite nice in a way that you know it probably won't chart
The best song will probably be the one which Kele doesn't sing on it
I've divorced the band, so want to enjoy whatever mad crap they come up with. And for free this time. They owe me £12 and 5 hours of my life back -as well as an apology- anyway.
AWITC was pompous, melodramatic cheesy trash and also very boring and lacking in vitality, whereas these two new songs at least sound somewhat spontaneous and fun. I'd probably love Trojan Horse were it not for Kele's forced vocals and his forced lyrics.
'You used to take your watch off before we made love'
die die die die die
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