Review: Music Review: Bloc Party - Intimacy

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“I want to declare a war,” exclaims singer Kele Okereke on his band’s deceptively titled third album, Intimacy. This is not, after all, an album composed of adult contemporary treacle, though Okereke has stated that the disc was inspired by the dissolution of a relationship. Alternately aggressive and melancholy, primal and refined, Intimacy bears the marks of a band beginning to create its own unique sound and persona.

Following the release of their debut album Silent Alarm in 2005, Bloc Party became big stars in the UK and underground sensations in America. That album’s hyperactive post-punk textures helped it reach #3...