The third Bloc Party album ''Intimacy'' will be available this thursday via the website of the band www.blocparty.com . The band has announced this yesterday during a webchat with their fans. ''Intimacy'' has been produced by Paul Epworth (also responsible for the debut album ''Silent Alarm'') and Jacknife Lee (of the second album ''A Weekend in the City'') and recorded in Kent and London. Alan Moulder has done the mixing. Some tracks will sound like nothing before, wilst other tracks are typical Bloc Party instant classics like ''Helicopter'', ''Banquet'' or ''So Here We Are''. Last week Bloc Party already released the new single ''Mercury''.