What with Radiohead’s controversial ‘pay what-you-like’ release of ‘In Rainbows’, and now Bloc Party following in their footsteps with a download-only version of third album ‘Intimacy’, these days it seems that when it comes to releasing a new record, unconventional is the new conventional. The physical release of ‘Intimacy’, coming almost 2 months after the download, has the added bonus of new single ‘Talons’, which, with its impossibly catchy chorus of ‘And when it comes it will feel like a kiss’ makes you want to dance around with your arms around the people you love.
When it comes down to it, ‘Intimacy’ is an incredibly personal break-up album, which, at times, is so poignant and open that it’s almost unbearable. ‘Zephyrus’, with its delicate and honest chorus, is ’Intimacy’s saddest moment but possibly the best thing Bloc Party have made since ‘Banquet’.
Other album highlights include ‘Mercury’, which is both a vibrant and triumphant start to the album, the calm ‘Signs’; a haunting, subtle love song, ‘Better Than Heaven’ which is 2008’s ‘This Modern Love’, and the desperately strong ‘One Month Off’.
Throughout, this album is indeed intimate, involving and beautiful, but it’s a heartbreaking journey all the way.
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