Article: Bloc Party Intimacy (Wichita) HHHHIThe most surprising thing about Bloc Party's third album is its very existence. Announced for the first time on August 18 and made available for paid download on the band's website a few days later, Intimacy has arrived in much the same way as Radiohead's groundbreaking In Rainbows. Physical copies of this album will be released on the last Friday of October.

The most surprising thing about Bloc Party's third album is its very existence. Announced for the first time on August 18 and made available for paid download on the band's website a few days later, Intimacy has arrived in much the same way as Radiohead's groundbreaking In Rainbows. Physical copies of this album will be released on the last Friday of October.

The second surprising aspect of this album is how good it is. After disappointing massively with 2007's A Weekend In The City -- an album that gets more irritating with every listen -- Kele Okereke and friends have taken the bracing post-punk of their excellent debut, Silent Alarm, and infused it with ...

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