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Name .:. Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins
Genre : Rock
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Limited Edition
Artist : Maximo Park
Label : Pias/Prolifica (Rough Trade)
Titel : Nature Always Wins
Tracks : 17
Playtime : 60:47
Size : 118,77MB
Encoder : VBRNEW - LAME3.100 - V0
Quality : VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate : avg. 273kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.Partly Of My Making 04:04
02.Versions Of You 04:37
03.Baby Sleep 03:14
04.Placeholder 02:49
05.All Of Me 03:42
06.Ardour 03:17
07.Meeting Up 03:51
08.Why Must A Building Burn 03:02
09.I Don't Know What I'm Doing 02:50
10.The Acid Remark 03:32
11.Feelings I'm Supposed To Feel 04:26
12.Child Of The Flatlands 05:17
13.All Of Me (Acoustic) 03:55
14.Baby, Sleep (Acoustic) 02:49
15.I Don't Know What I'm Doing (Acoustic) 02:51
16.Partly Of My Making (Demo Version) 03:44
17.Placeholder (Demo Version) 02:47
Total 60:47 Min
With 2017Æs Risk To Exist, Maximo Park crafted an
album that dealt with Brexit, Trumpism and a
seemingly global shift towards nationalism. Fast
forward four years, and though these issues are
still as salient as ever, the world is a very
different place and not strictly for the better.
While certainly changing on both a wider, and
international scale (a global pandemic will have a
tendency to do that), the differences also reach
more personal for Maximo Park. Though Nature Always
Wins marks the bandÆs first record since the birth
of singer Paul SmithÆs first child, itÆs also
notably the first since the departure of founding
member and keyboard player Lukas Wooler, an egress
that left a sizeable gap in the bandÆs foundation.
And two events which inform much of the record.
Rather than view this as a setback however, the band
have taken things in their stride, resulting in a
record that fizzes and pops in true Maximo Park
fashion, whilst managing to avoid most of the
hiccoughs that often come with such a recalibration.
For the most part, Nature Always Wins asserts itself
as textbook Maximo, bridging the gap between the
bandÆs trademark staccato post-punk and their wide
swathes of technicolour indie-pop perfectly. Even
those rare moments where the record thins and
WoolerÆs absence is most notable are fleeting,
especially when compared with the memorable pop pomp
of tracks such as "Partly of My Making" or lead
single "Baby Sleep".
ItÆs certainly a testament to the band, that they
can wrestle with the themes at play here, and not
just retain a sense of their usual buoyancy, but
actually build and develop it. Indeed, where Risk to
Exist was an obliquely political record, Nature
Always Wins is grander still, interested not just in
the socio-political, as much of their records are,
but in the very nature of us as humans, in how
beliefs can influence actions; in how oneÆs
personality can shape their children.
If such narratives seen ambitious, thatÆs because
they are. But then, Nature Always Wins is an
ambitious album. From the understated "Meeting Up"
to the sprawling and off-kilter closing number
"Child of the Flatlands", itÆs the sound of Maximo
Park not so much maturing, as it is them evolving.
And while Smith might well argue itÆs the sound of
them aging, thereÆs still plenty of life in them
yet.
https://www.maximopark.com