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▄█▀ ARTIST.....: Maximo Park ▀█▄
█▓ ALBUM......: Our Earthly Pleasures ██
█▒ YEAR.......: 2007 ██
█░ LABEL......: Warp Records ██
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█░ RLZ-DATE...: 03/08/2010 STREET-DATE...: 04/02/2007 ██
█▒ RIPPER.....: Team-DDZ SUPPLIER......: Team-DDZ ██
█▒ TYPE.......: Album GENRE.........: Indie Rock ▓█
█▒ TRACKS.....: 12 SIZE..........: 76,8 MB ▓█
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█▓ SOURCE.....: CDDA ▒█
█▓ QUALITY....: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo ▒█
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██ 01 | Girls Who Play Guitars [03:12] ██
██ 02 | Our Velocity [03:20] ██
██ 03 | Books From Boxes [03:29] ██
██ 04 | Russian Literature [03:07] ██
██ 05 | Karaoke Plays [04:08] ██
██ 06 | Your Urge [03:58] ██
██ 07 | The Unshockable [03:16] ██
██ 08 | By The Monument [02:59] ██
██ 09 | Nosebleed [03:25] ██
██ 10 | A Fortnight's Time [03:02] ██
██ 11 | Sandblasted And Set Free [03:58] ██
██ 12 | Parisian Skies [03:56] ██
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██ AMG Review : ██
██ Maximo Park sounded so wound up and wiry on their debut, ██
██ A Certain Trigger, it felt like the band might snap if ██
██ they went any further in that direction on their next ██
██ album. For Our Earthly Pleasures, the band recruited ██
██ producer Gil Norton to fill out their sound; while Norton ██
██ has done great things with bands like the Pixies and Foo ██
██ Fighters, his heavily layered production ends up weighing ██
██ down the band's formerly nimble rock. To be fair, ██
██ Norton's approach does work on a few of Our Earthly ██
██ Pleasures' more aggressive songs. "Girls Who Play ██
██ Guitars" gets the album off to a great start, with synths ██
██ buzzing with anticipation, taut basslines, and jagged ██
██ riffs. The single "Our Velocity" follows suit, spilling ██
██ over with burbling keyboards and an urgency that helps ██
██ make up for the fact that it's far more conventional- ██
██ sounding than anything Maximo Park has done before. ██
██ Elsewhere, the album's bigger sound doesn't equal big ██
██ impact, particularly on "By The Monument" and "The ██
██ Unshockable", which miss the mark despite the band's ██
██ impassioned delivery. And, while "A Fortnight's Time" ██
██ doesn't quite work either, its witty lyrics ("When it ██
██ comes to girls I'm mostly hypothetical/If I list their ██
██ names it's purely alphabetical") almost save it. The same ██
██ goes for "Books From Boxes", a breakup vignette that ██
██ sounds like a more defeated follow-up to A Certain ██
██ Trigger's "Postcard Of A Painting" and, unfortunately, ██
██ shows the difference between great lyrics and great ██
██ songwriting. Our Earthly Pleasures' softer, more romantic ██
██ songs are the best showcases for the album's lush sound ██
██ and Paul Smith's appealing vocals and lyrics: "Nosebleed" ██
██ and "Sandblasted And Set Free" are mature and polished ██
██ takes on unrequited love and moving on from a breakup, ██
██ with rippling keyboards that make them sound downright ██
██ pretty. "Your Urge" goes from delicate guitar and piano ██
██ counterpoint to full-on rock fury and back again, ██
██ displaying a mastery Maximo Park didn't have on their ██
██ debut; likewise, "Parisian Skies", a striking balance of ██
██ ebb and flow, idealism and heartbreak, closes the album ██
██ with one of the band's finest songs yet. There are strong ██
██ lyrics and memorable melodies throughout Our Earthly ██
██ Pleasures, but, frustratingly, they don't come together ██
██ as consistently as they did on A Certain Trigger. Despite ██
██ the album's unevenness, the best songs show how Maximo ██
██ Park's music can evolve into something as quirky and ██
██ unique as their debut and as pop-minded as the approach ██
██ they try here. ██
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