Our Earthly Pleasures
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| Studio album by Maxïmo Park | |||||
| Released | April 2, 2007 (UK) May 8, 2007 (US) |
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| Recorded | August-December 2006 | ||||
| Genre | Post-punk revival Indie rock |
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| Length | 41:47 | ||||
| Label | Warp | ||||
| Producer | Gil Norton | ||||
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Our Earthly Pleasures is the second album by Newcastle-based indie rock band Maxïmo Park. It was released on April 2, 2007 in the UK (and May 8, 2007 in the US), being preceded by the single "Our Velocity", released two weeks previously, on March 19, 2007.
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[edit] Album information
Album details, including track listing, were released on the NME's website 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 in March 2007.
Vocalist Paul Smith states that the title of the album stems from the idea that we are bonded by our experiences, and that several tracks were written to embody specific human emotions.[citation needed] The title of the album appears in the lyrics of "Russian Literature".
"There it is again that lock of hair that won't sit still
Our earthly pleasures distract us against our will."[3]
The band did an album launch party at the Baltic Flour Mill, the contemporary art gallery in Gateshead on March 28 2007. Another album launch gig took place at HMV Newcastle at midnight on the April 2, to release the album, hometown fans were the first to get a hold of Our Earthly Pleasures. A third launch party took place in London, at the 100 Club on Oxford Street, on the evening of April 2nd.
The tracks "Our Velocity", "Books From Boxes", "Girls Who Play Guitars" and "Karaoke Plays" have been released as singles.
Tickets to the April/May Our Earthly Pleasures Tour went on sale at 9am, February 2 2007. Tickets sold out within one hour to the majority of the venues.
The two US bonus tracks were mislabeled on iTunes Music Store, with track 13 being labeled "Distance Makes" when it was actually the song "Pride Before A Fall", "Distance Makes" was included as the other bonus track.
A Special Edition was also released which contains the bonus track "Robert Altman" (Track 13 - 2:24)
The song "The Unshockable" features in FIFA 08 Playlist and a Johnny Test commercial on Cartoon Network.
[edit] Reception
Professional reviews:
- Rolling Stone (p.62) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The U.K. indie band's second album has beefed-up sound and increasingly brilliant, not-at-all-pretentious gems like 'Girls Who Play Guitars'."
- Spin (p.86) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Maximo Park bring plenty of recognizable spark and smarts to their second album....The record barely pauses for breath."
- Q (p.122) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Sandblasted And Set Free' indicates a welcome broadening of their musical palette."
- Alternative Press (p.149) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "There are flashes of retro-flavored, spirit-of-'79 brilliance, including Duncan Lloyd's spy-versus-spy guitars on 'The Unshockable'."
[edit] Track listing
- "Girls Who Play Guitars" - 3:12
- "Our Velocity" - 3:20
- "Books from Boxes" - 3:28
- "Russian Literature" - 3:07
- "Karaoke Plays" - 4:08
- "Your Urge" - 3:57
- "The Unshockable" - 3:16
- "By the Monument" - 2:59
- "Nosebleed" - 3:25
- "A Fortnight's Time" - 3:01
- "Sandblasted and Set Free" - 3:58
- "Parisian Skies" - 3:56
[edit] References
| Maxïmo Park |
| Paul Smith | Duncan Lloyd | Archis Tiku | Tom English | Lukas Wooller |
| Discography |
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| Albums: A Certain Trigger | Missing Songs | Our Earthly Pleasures |
| Singles: "The Coast Is Always Changing" | "Apply Some Pressure" | "Graffiti" | "Going Missing" | "Apply Some Pressure" (Re-Release) | "I Want You to Stay" | "Our Velocity" | "Books From Boxes" | "Girls Who Play Guitars" | "Karaoke Plays" |
| DVDs: Found on Film |
| Related articles |
| Warp Records | County Durham | Maxïmo Park discography |
