Sometimes an album comes along that is like someone placing your life in an audio-descriptive channel on TV.
It's not the first time Maximo Park have done it. Lyrically empathising is what they do best. They seem to have me on live pause and have followed me through school and college, then university, stopping at the times they deem fit and summarising what is going on. I'm not the only one, many have made a similar claim. 'I use the big words, but I just can't join up the dots' from 'Wolf Among Men.' This does have, however, it's alarming factors to boot. It shows just how similar we all are, and that a man I've never met can tell everyone how I feel better than I can.
Over the years they've hit me with songs like 'kiss you better' and 'russian literature,' songs that were never going to see the top ten but were just fantastic, particularly for the lyrics. Breaking up, making up, all the little in between moments, all covered by their frankly underrated discography.
I'm going to see them perform in Newcastle in November. Excited beyond belief.
