Bloc Party's bassist Gordon Moakes spoke to Pitchfork about the band's decision to release their album without the normal 2-3 month lead up that most bands take:

The recording effectively was finished in July. So not a huge amount of time ago. It was mixed fairly recently, so I got a final master CD probably last week. [With the leak of the previous album], the drawback for me with that was that it just felt like it dribbled out a bit, you know. You want a sense of occasion, I suppose, when you put out a record. But I'm very much of the opinion that it's not necessarily a bad thing.

Certainly, as a listener to music, I don't necessarily go looking for illegal versions of records that aren't out yet. You know, a reasonably legitimate way to get used to music is to download it. It's a very good thing to download if it's legal, but I think it's just one of those new phenomena, the dissemination of music, I suppose.

You can find the rest of the interview here and three new songs from Intimacy posted on their myspace page. The album itself can be purchased digitally for $10.00 via this page.