Intimacy
by Bloc Party
- Type: Album
- Released: 21 August 2008
- Label: Wichita
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:00:00
- Community rating: 3.26/5 from 13 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Bloc Party embraces electronics and breakbeats on their third album, moving further from their post-punk roots. 'Intimacy' features glitchy production and personal lyrics about a breakup. It is an experimental, sometimes jarring, evolution for the band.
Genres
Descriptors: breakup, distorted, ferocious, relentless, bassy
Tracklist
- Ares (03:28)
- Mercury (03:50)
- Halo (03:34)
- Biko (04:59)
- Trojan Horse (03:32)
- Signs (04:38)
- One Month Off (03:35)
- Zephyrus (04:34)
- Talons (04:40)
- Better Than Heaven (04:20)
- Ion Square (06:32)
- Letter to My Son (04:24)
- Your Visits Are Getting Shorter (04:19)
- Flux (03:35)
Credits
- 'Desola Haastrup - alto vocals [altos]
- Alison Benbow - alto vocals [altos]
- Angharad Lloyd - alto vocals [altos]
- Bettina Weichert - alto vocals [altos]
- Claire Hetherington - alto vocals [altos]
- Frances Rowberry - alto vocals [altos]
- Gretchen Cummings - alto vocals [altos]
- Jenny Marsden - alto vocals [altos]
- Julia Saperia - alto vocals [altos]
- Philippa Gardner - alto vocals [altos]
- Avshalom Caspi - arranged by [brass]
- Rob Crane - art direction, design
- Chris Brasted - bass vocals [basses]
- Chris Wright - bass vocals [basses]
- Henry Ross - bass vocals [basses]
- Malcolm Aldridge - bass vocals [basses]
- Mark Rivers-Moore - bass vocals [basses]
- Peter Jennings - bass vocals [basses]
- Stephen Hall - bass vocals [basses]
- Tim Meunier - bass vocals [basses]
- Tom Smith - bass vocals [basses]
- The Exmoor Singers Of London - choir
- Simon White - management
- Tony Perrin - management
- Coalition Management - management [at]
- Guy Davie - mastered by
- Alan Moulder - mixed by
- Darren Lawson - mixed by [mix assistant]
- James Jarvis - music director [choir]
- Perry Curties - photography by
- Jacknife Lee - producer
- Paul Epworth - producer
- Sam Bell - programmed by [additional programming]
- Tom Hough - recorded by [assisted by, choral and brass]
- Matt Wiggins - recorded by [assisted by, paul epworth sessions]
- Phil Rose - recorded by [choral and brass]
- Mark Rankin - recorded by [paul epworth sessions]
- Guy Barker - soloist [trumpet solo]
- Alex Cope - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Charlotte Nicklin - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Claire Fletcher - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Hayley Kruger - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Ingalo Thomson - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Rebecca Wallis - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Rhian Walther - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Roz Sherris - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Sara Coffey - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Sarah Meunier - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Sharon Kniss - soprano vocals [sopranos]
- Dave Garioch - tenor vocals [tenors]
- Gordon Banner - tenor vocals [tenors]
- John Catherall - tenor vocals [tenors]
- Peter Kenny - tenor vocals [tenors]
- Richard Furse - tenor vocals [tenors]
- Victor Gan - tenor vocals [tenors]
- Chris Dean - trombone
- Colin Sheen - trombone
- Dan Jenkins - trombone
- Roger Harvey - trombone
- Derek Watkins - trumpet