Release
Intimacy Remixed is the second remix album of Bloc Party's work following Silent Alarm Remixed, the remix album to debut full-length release Silent Alarm. Details of the record and its track listing were confirmed on 16 March 2009 after the band's European tour in support of Intimacy. Several dance acts, DJs, and alternative music groups were asked to rework tracks. Mogwai, whose debut album Mogwai Young Team is frontman Kele Okereke's musical "Year Zero", were drafted in to remix "Biko". "Talons (Phones R.I.P Remix)" is Intimacy co-producer Paul Epworth's last song remix under the "Phones" name. Pitchfork Media's reaction to the release news was mixed; Tom Breihan indicated that the concept could be successful, but noted that the idea of remix albums in rock music has become stagnant.
Bloc Party spent much of March and April 2009 touring in the U.S. and Canada in support of Intimacy Remixed. The band members invited fans attending their one-off London Olympia concerts on 11–12 April to film the performances on their mobiles and send the recordings to the band online. A music video for "Ares (Villains Remix)" was created by collating the resulting footage and was webcast. "Signs (Armand Van Helden Remix)" was released as a promotional single on 27 April 2009. Intimacy Remixed was released in Europe on 11 May 2009. The album was distributed in the rest of the world on 26–27 May but no physical copies were released on U.S. record labels. The cover art is a negative of the close-up of a couple kissing by freelance photographer Perry Curties used on Intimacy.
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