~Clippers0507

Peaches and Lemons

Profile

Gallery

Prints

Faves

Journal

I Needed You As Much As They Do

Journal Entry: Sat Aug 23, 2008, 9:52 PM

Mood: Lonely
Listening to: Bloc Party - Biko
Reading: return to the city of white donkeys - james tate
Watching: Spongebob Squarepants
Eating: Hardly
Drinking: Water

There's new Bloc Party out. It's called Intimacy. This is some good stuff here. I just listened to Silent Alarm, their first album and was like, cool. Got into it later. Same with A Weekend In The City, their second album. Both were good, but just had weird, incomplete feelings attached to it or it was just not totally filling the soundscape like it could.

This new one, Bloc Party - Intimacy, is a whole new beast. I love it. A lot.

Hearing a lot of people not liking this new direction, but seriously, to me, they sound like they know what they want to do now.

Have a listen:

Biko

Zephyrus

Ares

Accompanied with a very thought-provoking album cover, I smell a winner (joking about the cover):

Released online first, gonna be a full official studio release in October, with more tracks. Cool, sounds like a plan to me.

What you think of the new songs? Do you even know who these people are?

Writing is still coming along. I'm feeling a sense of freedom again with it and trying to have fun again. Photos again continue to inspire or just make me happy in general. As one dev says, Tis grand, love!

Featured Artists

Stamps

Friends I'm Mad Cool With

I Don't Think They Even Know I Exist But I Love Their Artwork So Much That I Can't Help But Forever Highlight Them

6 Comments

Devious Comments

~~love 0 0~~

~~joy 0 0~~

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

*YouInventedMe Aug 24, 2008, 2:13:16 PM

interesting

I really like the first bloc party
and the second has grown on me

trying to download the new one
now

xo!

--
an antique arms and armor expert

~Clippers0507 Aug 24, 2008, 2:39:16 PM

Yeah, exactly. The second one took some time, but I actually do like it now.

I'm pretty much happy when artist take new turns and try new things out. When people say, I just want Silent Alarm! I think, Why don't you just listen to the album again?

Especially as an artist. There are some older works of mine my sister prefers and wants me to write in that style again and that's something I liked at the time, it worked well for me, but I don't want to go back to that. It would feel like I would be either taking the easy way out or cheating myself of continuing to better my craft.

--
My boy, if silence is golden, you are bankrupt. -
Charlie Chan

=myheartsong Aug 25, 2008, 6:18:46 AM

OMGosh I'm so happy you brought this up! haha...I absolutely LOVE this album...It's sublime to me. I have always been a fan of their work, but there is something about this album that just seems more........intimate. Hence the name, I'm sure

But, I really like it...it's one of Bloc Party's musical gems.

--
What am I supposed to do, when the best part of me was always you?

~Clippers0507 Aug 25, 2008, 2:12:41 PM

Oh man! It's so friggin nice to know there are people out there who actually LIKE this new album! I was starting to think I was the only one! I brought this up on the forums and they were like, Ugh, boo! That new album sucks! And I'm like, Are you hearing what I'm hearing? lol Yeah, it's pure gold. I love it. Come Oct, it's gonna do wonderfully.

--
My boy, if silence is golden, you are bankrupt. -
Charlie Chan