2017’s ‘Risk To Exist’, in 2020 Maximo Park have turned instead to the after-effects. “I’ve always wanted to reflect the time that each record is made in, and not hark back to anything,” singer Paul Smith tells NME of their new seventh album ‘Nature Always Wins’ – a record lyrically informed by Grenfell, the Bataclan and the effects of Tory austerity.
Between personal dissections of love and parenthood are dotted snapshots of a country, and a species, in decay. Albeit speckled with glimmers of redemption.“There are a couple of more nostalgic moments on this record, like ‘Child Of The Flatlands’,” Smith says.
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