The National Health
On their fourth album in seven years, the British indie stalwarts remain true to form with an album that barely veers from the template laid by their debut.
Maximo Park got its start with an interesting hook: It was the only rock band signed to the forward-thinking electronic label Warp, home to the likes of Aphex Twin and Boards Of Canada. Four albums and a decade later, the British band is still making pretty much exactly the same music, a sort of classic, rambunctious,…
Maximo Park have weathered the mid noughties indie battles between guitar revolutions and proto-rave, to become a fine British rock band.
After 2009's somewhat disappointing Quicken the Heart, Maxïmo Park took a break, during which singer/songwriter Paul Smith released his more expansive solo album Margins.
Maxïmo Park blasted out of the U.K. in 2005 with A Certain Trigger, an album of angular, fast-paced post-whatever rock and roll that was gripping in both its musical heft and its incisive lyrical dexterity. The National Health represents a true return to
<p>The formless anxiety previously kept at bay by those bright, jerky guitars seems to be getting the upper hand, writes <strong>Caroline Sullivan</strong></p>
Maximo Park - The National Health review: In rude health or a terminal case? Maxïmo Park seek to diagnose a nation's problems on their fourth album