A web chat involving the band Bloc Party on August 18 led to the shock announcement that the band’s new album would be “rush-released” within three days as a legal music download on the band’s official website. After freaking out their fans, Bloc Party came good on their promise and, sure enough, on August 21, the album Intimacy was available for music download for the princely sum of a fiver.

The band made the decision to offer the quickly released music download because the boys are apparently bored and “dispirited” by the way most albums are released today. The album was finished about six months ago and Kele Okereke and co saw no reason to wait any longer before fans could legally get themselves a copy of the nw material.

Critics have been all over the album, mostly praising Bloc Party’s solid offering of 10 brand-new tracks. Bloc Party follow in the footsteps of bands such as Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails who have all played with the model of releasing albums as legal music downloads.

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