Maximo Park
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It sounds, grins Paul Smith, on Maximo Parks glorious second album, Our Earthly Pleasures, like Smashing Pumpkins crossed with The Smiths.
Smashing Pumpkins and The Smiths is some hybrid mix, but then Maximo Park never were a band to be constricted by limitations.
And its definitely heavier than our first, he continues. Were very proud of our first album, but we didn't want to do that again.
And so the band brought in Foo Fighters and Pixies producer Gil Norton, and it is Norton that has helped Newcastles finest musical export become even more taut and muscular, and even more thrilling a proposition than they were the first time around. Lets not pull any punches...
