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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Maximo Park - Let's Get Clinical

Posted 4/17/2009 8:17 AM by Kev Kharas

Tags: indie, post-punk, synthpop

Say what you like about Maximo Park and their strange taste in hats - what's proven is their capacity to craft interesting guitar-pop songs. Set to return with third album Quicken The Heart next month, the Novocastrian quintet decided to extend their remit this time around, looking to incoporate "strange noises" into the push and pull of the mix. So, "Let's Get Clinical" boasts an 808 fed through a guitar amp, Ibizan synth pangs and singer Paul Smith trapped in what sounds like an art-metal breakdown about two thirds of the way in. Chastening stuff. As usual, Smith's lovelorn lyrics tend towards the perverse, ("last night's dirty lips were wrapped around that glass / creeping past your flat next door, the empty bottles on the floor") but any raised eyebrows are calmed by the "oohs" and "aahs" of his band's backing vocals, the dutiful burble of guitars and sedated synths housing the singer's meticulous lust like a padded cell.

Sounds Like: Field Music, Dexy's Midnight Runners, XTC

Maximo Park - Let's Get Clinical

Previously:

Maximo Park - Our Velocity

Maximo Park's RCRD LBL Page

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