
"Our Velocity" These dudes must eat a lot of sugar. How else can you explain the amount of ideas and energy they're able to pack into three minutes? Every song has a steady, driving rhythm, which makes it easier to ride the wave storm of chord changes. But if you actually manage to ignore your natural inclination to shake and shimmy, you might notice how tight the band are as musicians. "Our Velocity" finds Maximo Park in their usual eighties Post-Punk/New Wave mode, but [...]
1. Jenny Wilson - 'Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward' (The Knife remix) 2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Cheated Hearts' (Peaches remix) 3. Explosions In The Sky - 'Catastrophe And The Cure' (Four Tet remix) 4. Bloc Party - 'The Prayer' (Para One remix) 5. Klaxons - 'Atlantis To Interzone' (Crystal Castles remix) half a dozen. Feist - 'Mushaboom' (Postal Service remix) 7. Maximo Park - 'I Want You [...]

Maximo Park is a bunch of dudes from Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. As I've said many times before, music from the UK is awesome, another example - The Rakes. Maximo Park isn't new per se as they blew up back in February and around that time. I just felt like writing about them because I've been listening to their EP/ Single Apply Some Pressure. They have released a slew of singles, and one album "A Certain Trigger." One quick note, I love their cover art and "branding" of the band. Just look [...]