:: New album for Bloc Party ready to be pre-ordered

By: Carmine Pascuzzi

Bloc Party's third album, Intimacy, will be available in Australia from August 21. It can be pre-ordered now via the band's website

The album will also be available as a limited edition CD format which will be delivered from October 27 and feature
additional songs. Anyone pre-ordering the CD will also receive the download from August 21. Intimacy will hit stores in Australia on October 25, 2008.

Bloc Party alerted fans to Intimacy's existence, as well as their ability to purchase the record instantly, when they hosted their first-ever web chat on August 18. The album follows on from the release of their hit single Mercury, released on August 11.

The album, produced by Paul Epworth (Silent Alarm) and Jacknife Lee (A Weekend in the City), was recorded in Kent and London and mixed by Alan Moulder. Some songs are Bloc Party at their most wildly experimental, while other tracks are simply classic Bloc Party, fitting in seamlessly amongst fan favourites “Helicopter,” “Banquet” and “So Here We Are.”