Musical Over Dose is proud to present Since January 2002 another new release, have fun .: about release :. Name .:. Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins Genre : Rock Source : CDDA Type .:. Limited Edition Artist : Maximo Park Label : Pias/Prolifica (Rough Trade) Titel : Nature Always Wins Tracks : 17 Playtime : 60:47 Size : 118,77MB Encoder : VBRNEW - LAME3.100 - V0 Quality : VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo Bitrate : avg. 273kbps [ Tracklist ] 01.Partly Of My Making 04:04 02.Versions Of You 04:37 03.Baby Sleep 03:14 04.Placeholder 02:49 05.All Of Me 03:42 06.Ardour 03:17 07.Meeting Up 03:51 08.Why Must A Building Burn 03:02 09.I Don't Know What I'm Doing 02:50 10.The Acid Remark 03:32 11.Feelings I'm Supposed To Feel 04:26 12.Child Of The Flatlands 05:17 13.All Of Me (Acoustic) 03:55 14.Baby, Sleep (Acoustic) 02:49 15.I Don't Know What I'm Doing (Acoustic) 02:51 16.Partly Of My Making (Demo Version) 03:44 17.Placeholder (Demo Version) 02:47 Total 60:47 Min With 2017Æs Risk To Exist, Maximo Park crafted an album that dealt with Brexit, Trumpism and a seemingly global shift towards nationalism. Fast forward four years, and though these issues are still as salient as ever, the world is a very different place and not strictly for the better. While certainly changing on both a wider, and international scale (a global pandemic will have a tendency to do that), the differences also reach more personal for Maximo Park. Though Nature Always Wins marks the bandÆs first record since the birth of singer Paul SmithÆs first child, itÆs also notably the first since the departure of founding member and keyboard player Lukas Wooler, an egress that left a sizeable gap in the bandÆs foundation. And two events which inform much of the record. Rather than view this as a setback however, the band have taken things in their stride, resulting in a record that fizzes and pops in true Maximo Park fashion, whilst managing to avoid most of the hiccoughs that often come with such a recalibration. For the most part, Nature Always Wins asserts itself as textbook Maximo, bridging the gap between the bandÆs trademark staccato post-punk and their wide swathes of technicolour indie-pop perfectly. Even those rare moments where the record thins and WoolerÆs absence is most notable are fleeting, especially when compared with the memorable pop pomp of tracks such as "Partly of My Making" or lead single "Baby Sleep". ItÆs certainly a testament to the band, that they can wrestle with the themes at play here, and not just retain a sense of their usual buoyancy, but actually build and develop it. Indeed, where Risk to Exist was an obliquely political record, Nature Always Wins is grander still, interested not just in the socio-political, as much of their records are, but in the very nature of us as humans, in how beliefs can influence actions; in how oneÆs personality can shape their children. If such narratives seen ambitious, thatÆs because they are. But then, Nature Always Wins is an ambitious album. From the understated "Meeting Up" to the sprawling and off-kilter closing number "Child of the Flatlands", itÆs the sound of Maximo Park not so much maturing, as it is them evolving. And while Smith might well argue itÆs the sound of them aging, thereÆs still plenty of life in them yet. https://www.maximopark.com