Too Much Information
UK alt rock vets Maximo Park were originally noted for being another successful, angular guitar act. A few albums later, they’ve flipped the script: Too Much Information, their newest, eases up on the gas while deepening their commitment to contemplative songwriting.
Maximo Park attempt to integrate themselves in to the modern musical landscape with mixed results.
"I wanted to try something different this time," Paul Smith sings at one point on Too Much Information, and in fact, Maxïmo Park try a few new things on their fifth album.
With 2012's The National Health, Maxïmo Park reclaimed the mystique of what made their early work so brilliant-the angular guitars, the witty lyrics, the propulsive motorik drive.
Too Much Information marks Maximo Park as a band capable of beatific, melancholy-kissed rock that almost no one does well anymore.
Review Of The Album "Too Much Information" From Maximo Park. The Lp comes out on February 4th via 'Daylighting'. Maximo Park play in Kingston, UK 1/31.