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They say you should try to make more room for Intimacy in your life, and if you're free on Thursday, Bloc Party would like very much to get all up in your business.

On August 21-- as in this Thursday-- Bloc Party will digitally release Intimacy, their unexpectedly imminent third full-length LP.

A physical release of Intimacy, featuring different tracks from the digital incarnation, is due October 28 from Atlantic in the U.S., and October 27 in the UK via Wichita. You can flip on over to the Bloc Party website to preorder your copy of Intimacy in whichever form you please right this instant, if you'd like. If you pre-order the physical version, you get the digital version as well.

Intimacy is being released in this increasingly more orthodox fashion to combat the kind of leakage that got A Weekend in the City out on the web many months before its eventual release. The album was produced by Silent Alarm's Paul Epworth and Weekend's Jackknife Lee and mixed by Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Smashing Pumpkins), and it's being described as "wildly experimental" in parts and "simply classic Bloc Party" in others.

I just wanna know if "Biko" is a Peter Gabriel cover, and, given how much first single "Mercury" sounds like a jacked up "Shock the Monkey", I reckon I won't be surprised if it is.

But I digress. New Bloc Party album! For the weekend!

Bloc Party have a few dates to attend to throughout the coming months, and promise more in the States later on in 2008.

Intimacy:

01 Ares
02 Mercury
03 Halo
04 Biko
05 Trojan Horse
06 Signs
07 One Month Off
08 Zephyrus
09 Better Than Heaven
10 Ion Square

Bloc Party:

08-21 Dublin, Ireland - Marlay Park
08-23 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-24 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
09-05 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak
09-06 Toronto, Ontario - Virgin Festival
09-09 Edmonton, Alberta - Edmonton Events Centre #
09-10 Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Hall #
09-12 Quebec City, Quebec - Envol Macadam
09-13 Fredericton, New Brunswick - Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival
09-14 Halifax, Nova Scotia - The Marquee Club ^
09-15 Halifax, Nova Scotia - The Marquee Club ^
09-17 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis %

# with Foals
^ with Apostle of Hustle
% with Holy Fuck