Maximo Park Announce Release Of New Studio Album 'The National Health' & Reveal Title Track
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
Maximo Park have announced they will release their long awaited fourth album 'The National Health' on Monday 11th June.
Three years on from their critically acclaimed album 'Quicken the Heart', with over 2 million copies of their albums sold and even an arena tour of Europe now under their collective belt, 'The National Health' sees the band back in rip-roaring form.
Recorded with the legendary Gil Norton (who has worked with everyone from The Pixies to Foo Fighters and Patti Smith) in Rockfield, Wales and Moles, Bath, it is at once ferocious and rousing, and a powerful antidote to the anodyne rock and manufactured pop that all too often passes for our music scene these days.
“We’re in a global recession and everyone is being bombarded with bouncy, happy music,” explains frontman Paul Smith. “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…that’s always been a Maximo Park thing: look at yourself. See how you relate to yourself and hopefully someone else will have something in common with it. Our songs are built on empathy. I would hope it’s as vital a music as people would want to hear.”
You can check out the album's title track below or over at the band's official website www.maximopark.com.
'The National Health' track-listing is as follows:
1. When I Was Wild
2. The National Health
3. Hips and Lips
4. The Undercurrents
5. Write This Down
6. Reluctant Love
7. Until the Earth Would Open
8. Banlieue
9. This Is What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
10. Wolf Among Men
11. Take Me Home
12. Unfamiliar Places
13. Waves of Fear
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