Our Earthly Pleasures

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Album
Our Earthly Pleasures
Our Earthly Pleasures cover
Studio album by Maxïmo Park
Released April 2, 2007
Recorded August-December 2006
Genre Indie rock
Art rock
Length 41:47
Label Warp records
Producer(s) Gil Norton
Professional reviews
Maxïmo Park chronology
Missing Songs
(2006)
Our Earthly Pleasures
(2007)


Our Earthly Pleasures is the second album by Newcastle-based indie rock band Maxïmo Park. To be released on April 2, 2007, it is to be preceded by the single "Our Velocity", two weeks before, on March 19, 2007.

Album details, including track listing, were released on NME on January 22, 2007.[1] as well as the band's official web site[2]. The album was leaked in various places across the internet on the night of 3 March 2007.

Tickets to the April/May Our Earthly Pleasures Tour went on sale at 9am, 2nd February 2007. Tickets sold out within the hour to the majority of the venues.

The band did an album launch party at the Baltic Flour Mill, the contemporary art gallery in Gateshead on 28th March 2007. It took part in the Restaurant on the top floor.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Girls Who Play Guitars" - 3:12
  2. "Our Velocity" - 3:20
  3. "Books From Boxes" - 3:28
  4. "Russian Literature" - 3:07
  5. "Karaoke Plays" - 4:08
  6. "Your Urge" - 3:57
  7. "The Unshockable" - 3:16
  8. "By The Monument" - 2:59
  9. "Nosebleed" - 3:25
  10. "A Fortnight's Time" - 3:01
  11. "Sandblasted And Set Free" - 3:58
  12. "Parisian Skies" - 3:56

[edit] References

Maxïmo Park
Paul Smith | Duncan Lloyd | Archis Tiku | Tom English | Lukas Wooller
Discography
Albums: A Certain Trigger | Missing Songs | Our Earthly Pleasures
Singles: "The Coast Is Always Changing" | "Apply Some Pressure" | "Graffiti" | "Going Missing" | "Apply Some Pressure" | "I Want You To Stay" | "Our Velocity"
DVDs: Found On Film
Related articles
Warp Records | Newcastle Upon Tyne
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