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Maximo Park announce album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 29 March 2012
When not busy rehearsing for their headline billing at this year’s Great Escape festival, Maximo Park will instead be touting their brand new album ‘The National Health’, as we now know will be released on 11 Jun.
Frontman Paul Smith speaks thus of the band’s fourth long player, and how it relates to the state of society at large: “The nation is out of control and the record is about taking back control, and being a force for change in your own life. It can’t speak for everybody but it has its eyes and ears all around us. Our songs are built on empathy. I would hope it’s as vital a music as people would want to hear”.
You can hear that rousing speech (or its basic jist, at least) set to music in the album’s title track, which is available to listen to here:
And while you’re at it, take this tracklist:
When I Was Wild
The National Health
Hips And Lips
The Undercurrents
Write This Down
Reluctant Love
Until the Earth Would Open
Banlieue
This Is What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Wolf Among Men
Take Me Home
Unfamiliar Places
Waves of Fear
