Intimacy (studio album)
by Bloc Party

Intimacy by Bloc Party
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-08-21
Overall rank: 5,650th   
Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 176 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2008 (86th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (974th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,650th)

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Bloc Party bestography

Intimacy is ranked 3rd best out of 12 albums by Bloc Party on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bloc Party is Silent Alarm which is ranked number 373 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,497.

Bloc Party album bestography « Higher ranked (2,511th)
A Weekend In The City
This album (5,650th)
Intimacy
Lower ranked (6,244th) »
Four

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Intimacy track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Intimacy rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,650th | 2000s rank: 974th | 2008 rank: 86th

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Intimacy ratings

Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 176 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.2/100, a mean average of 68.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.

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80/100
From 10/04/2022 16:17 | #290154
Probably my favorite Bloc Party album. The first half is decent but the 2nd half (from Signs till the end) is fantastic and has some of my favorite tracks from them.

Top tracks
1) Signs
2) Better Than Heaven
3) Talons
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From 12/31/2021 18:27 | #278278
Silent Alarm was fantastic. A Weekend In The City was an inevitable drop-off but still good. Unfortunately this one continued the downward trend. Just couldn't get in to it. Says a lot that I can't remember any of the songs off the album...
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80/100
From 10/21/2020 22:40 | #259547
I'm going against the grain here. I really like this album. I prefer it over all there others (maybe not Silent Alarm depending on the mood). Good mix of up tempo beats and melody. I like the whole thing.
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45/100
From 10/12/2015 13:41 | #151348
Terrible.
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70/100
From 05/03/2013 22:00 | #75136
By the third album, most bands are either already re-treading familiar turf and slipping into comfortable self-parody or challenging their fanbase and losing half of them in the process. For Bloc Party circa Intimacy, it was very much the latter, but this is actually a thrilling listen in places. The opening two tracks are just mental...brilliantly so, while there are plenty of interesting dance beats and new sounds to give this album a distinctive and new sound. Not Bloc Party's best record, but still well-worth investigating.
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From 10/19/2012 13:01 | #52755
Very inconsistent album. Few good tracks but most of them are rather weak.
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From 10/18/2010 20:24 | #15797
Something very off with this on first listen. This might be a grower though. It is very energetic.
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From 10/11/2010 00:09 | #15587
a severely underrated lp. not sure why the critics panned this one. Key tracks: mercury, signs, better than heaven.
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