Our Earthly Pleasures - Maximo Park Reviews

I do like to try out new indie bands every so often and after hearing Maximo Park on the Radio 1 live lounge I decided to buy their album Our Earthly Pleasures. I think the band hail from Newcastle and certainly on some of the songs you can detect a Geordie accent from lead singer Paul Smith. In all they are a five piece band with Tom ...

~~Introduction~~ Maximo Park have the privilege of holding 7 places out of 10 of my most played songs on iTunes, which has been the state for at least 6 months now. There is a reason for this is that whatever mood I'm in, I always feel like listening to them. Sometimes I don't feel like listening to some of my other favourite bands, but ...

Style/Influences Maximo Park belongs to the explosive new genre entering the music scene. Sometimes called pop-punk, sometimes indie-rock Maximo Park gives a thoroughly enjoyable sound. It has a solid foundation of hard rock, quirkily combined with an element of punk that allows Maximo Punk to stand out from other bands who tend to ...

"Thanks for listening to this music - it's yours" is the last line of the album booklet and to me, it says next to everything that needs to be said about this album. There are 12 tracks, the sound is a mixture of rock and pop and the tracks range from being upbeat, and brilliant to sing along to, to more mellow and easy ...

After the release of 2005’s A Certain Trigger, Maximo Park have become one of my favourite current bands. Coupled with an amazing live performance and a number of B-sides that have more plays on my Ipod then some new albums and it really illustrates how much I like them. So when it was announced that the follow up, Our Earthly Pleasure was going ...