Meet Maxïmo Park: 20 years young and, now, eight albums deep in a career that – without hesitation, repetition or deviation – has been consistently thrilling, as perennially invigorating a blast for the head, as it is the heart, as it is for the feet.
So it is with Stream Of Life. Working with their customary self-imposed poetic efficiency, the northeast-based trio wrote throughout 2023 then booked a European tour for autumn 2024 – before they’d recorded the songs. “That’s how confident we were in this album,” jokes drummer Tom English. Only then did they arrange a pacy three weeks’ recording time, in Atlanta, Georgia, for January this year. “We almost book these things in to push us to come up with something fresh.”
