Digging Up Bones(2007 – Warp Records)
Establish, embellish, stir it up, let it sit, blow it up, then quit it. In a nutshell, that’s a surefire formula for effective rock-n-roll. Add the unexpected cadence. Add the unbalanced repetition (3 or 5 “ooh, ahh baby”s, instead of 4) and the effective starts to become attractive. Now, throw in a turn of phrase, especially at the dramatic beginning of the record. You know, something like, “You’ve been/With me/A year/To the day/Three hundred/And sixty/Five days/Watching me decay.” Now you are turning the attractive into the irresistible.
More words: “The pounding rain continued its bleak fall/We decided just to write, after all.” “Ignorance isn’t bliss/Familiarity still leads to contempt.” “Are you hopeful/Or just gullible?” Smart lyrics bind the guitars and keys to the drums and bass and full-fledged production, while propelling oblique friends and lovers through a gray city.
This, the second outing for Maximo Park, is a straightforward, modern rock record that seldom stumbles and often exceeds the limitations of its form.
It’ll work both ways: bookish and ballsy.
Maximo Park
JH
Establish, embellish, stir it up, let it sit, blow it up, then quit it. In a nutshell, that’s a surefire formula for effective rock-n-roll. Add the unexpected cadence. Add the unbalanced repetition (3 or 5 “ooh, ahh baby”s, instead of 4) and the effective starts to become attractive. Now, throw in a turn of phrase, especially at the dramatic beginning of the record. You know, something like, “You’ve been/With me/A year/To the day/Three hundred/And sixty/Five days/Watching me decay.” Now you are turning the attractive into the irresistible.
More words: “The pounding rain continued its bleak fall/We decided just to write, after all.” “Ignorance isn’t bliss/Familiarity still leads to contempt.” “Are you hopeful/Or just gullible?” Smart lyrics bind the guitars and keys to the drums and bass and full-fledged production, while propelling oblique friends and lovers through a gray city.
This, the second outing for Maximo Park, is a straightforward, modern rock record that seldom stumbles and often exceeds the limitations of its form.
It’ll work both ways: bookish and ballsy.
Maximo Park
JH
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