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BlenderHere, they simply sound jittery, putting romantic complaints to studio-worked music that's oddly brisk and busy, with a dissonance that drowns out the emotion. [Nov 2008, p.73]
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At its best Intimacy is taut and claustrophobic or movingly sentimental, but for the main part it is repetitious and bafflingly poorly realised, especially given that they could have had an extra six months to work on it.
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The rewards are there--it just takes some work.
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Brave, but forgettable.
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While Okereke has described Intimacy as a break-up album, it feels like more of a document of a band disconnected from itself.
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Q MagazineBloc Party remain a band with the greatness they seek still hovering somewhere on the horizons. [Nov 2008, p.112]
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Bloc Party disavows their history and start at a musical Year Zero. But the band hasn't adequately replaced their former selves to justify jettisoning their pervious strengths.
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Even as Intimacy gets sonically or lyrically precarious--'Zephyrus' recalls 'Jesus Walks,' for Christ's sake--it does so while reaching hard toward something exhilarating.
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Intimacy, as an album, is hit-or-miss.
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Bloc Party has a lot of ideas on Intimacy, but the band should have given itself more time to figure them out.
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In truth, though, there's not too much here to alarm the undergraduate population.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 68 out of 78
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Mixed: 8 out of 78
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Negative: 2 out of 78
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Nov 7, 2011
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MattA.Oct 3, 2008
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Feb 20, 2021