Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger on CD

Description

This, the debut album from rakish Northern English post-punks Maximo Park, is certainly not the sort of album you expect to find on acclaimed techno label Warp Records – but a sitting spent with A Certain Trigger should neatly demonstrate why they couldn't say no. A hyper-tuneful indie-rock outfit in the vein of XTC, Gang of Four, and particularly modern peers The Futureheads, Maximo turn out the sort of breathless, keyboard-drenched art-pop numbers that neither forsake their Englishness – frontman Paul Smith sings in his native accent, a broad Newcastle accent – nor bow excessively to the past. The immediate hit is "Apply Some Pressure", an instantly catchy mini-masterpiece of tension and relief that appears to be stitched out of the hooks from about five other songs – but hot on its heels come the likes of "Graffiti" and "Going Missing", which, while slow-burning, prove no less addictive in the long haul. And for all the smart assery on display, Maximo Park prove agreeably adept at pulling off the odd tender moment: see the sweet, chiming "The Coast Is Always Changing" – a tale of love, loss and long-distant train journeys. MAXIMO PARK A Certain Trigger (2005 UK 13-track CD album featuring their debut studio release including the singles The Coast Is Always Changing Apply Some Pressure Graffiti Going Missing and I Want You To Stay housed in the original Mercury stickered jewel case with the fold-out illustrated lyric inlay WARPCD130)

TRACKS

Signal & Sign
Apply Some Pressure
Graffiti
Postcard of a Painting
Going Missing
I Want You to Stay
Limassol
The Coast is Always Changing
The Night I Lost My Head
Once, a Glimpse
Now I'm All over the Shop
Acrobat
Kiss You Better