SEEMS THE BOY DONE GOOD WITH HIS SOLO PROJECT

Readers of old will know that I have confessed to falling in and out of love with Maximo Park on a few occasions. It's partly been for the fact that much of the music has, to my ears, failed to live up to the early promise shown on debut LP A Certain Trigger released back in 2005.

But it's also that I've been driven demented every now and again by the antics of frontman Paul Smith, especially in the live setting.

However, having been lucky enough to see the band in a very small venue in Toronto back in 2007 (review here), I fell back in love one more time, although I have to confess that the affair hasn't been fully consummated as I didn't buy their 2009 LP Quicken The Heart, nor did I buy Margins, the solo LP released by Paul Smith last year.

Going by this very positive review by Comrade Colin, it seems I'm missing out, certainly as far as the solo LP goes, and it is a piece of work that I now intend to purchase over the next few weeks.

For now though, I want to offer up, straight from vinyl (limited to 4000 copies of each), the songs that featured on the outstanding second single lifted from the 2007 LP Our Earthly Pleasures:-

mp3 : Maximo Park - Books From Boxes
mp3 : Maximo Park - Obstinate Ideas
mp3 : Maximo Park - Books From Boxes (Original Demo Version)
mp3 : Maximo Park - Don McPhee

The single reached #16 in the UK charts.

Here's a great live acoustic version recorded especially for BBC telly:-



Happy Listening