Bloc Party surprised the world a few days ago, delighting everyone with their radiohead/ raconteurs/girl talk-esque imminent digital release of their third album Intimacy. (that’s four months before their release date and literally a few days after my 'I can’t wait for the new bloc party album' rant)
I have appalling, incongruous listening habits. I usually fall for one or two songs on an album and find myself in a state of obsessive fixation. I relentlessly play the same songs over and over again and leave the rest of the album to temporarily fade into the background.
I forced myself out of this pattern for Bloc Party… I just really wanted to get a feel for this album. I decided to completely isolate myself from all other activity. I locked myself in my room, blared the speakers and devoted all attention, thought processes to the music.
Whether it was my heightened awareness or acute weakness to the themes presented throughout the whole album- my first listen to Intimacy was truly an invaluable experience. I really felt this to be a genuine, heart-felt album.
Intimacy brings all those raw, suppressed emotions to the surface. Issues of despair, loneliness and longing…The delivery? A flight of complete chaos and emotional disorder.
Halo grabbed me with a brutal intensity. A three minute passionate whirlwind of hope; desperation; suffering; desire and a yearning for love
The Xylophone-esque ‘Signs’ is too adorable. Really, Kele’s fragile voice just breaks my heart time and time again
Trojan Horse presents the inevitable self-torturous human instinct of living in the shadows of extinguished love.
Oh and the lyrics are divine...
“Just take me back
To the start
When our earthquake
It was just cracks
You must ask yourself
Every day”
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