Maximo Park – Girls Who Play Guitars
Of all of the somewhat popular British bands around at the moment, I find Maximo Park to be the most tolerable. Whilst most of the others tend to cause at least minor ear bleeding, these guys at least seem able to string a creative song together. Their first album, A Certain Trigger, left me slightly cold, but I really enjoy the majority of Our Earthly Pleasures. While there is nothing about them that would ever give me cause to call them a favourite band or the such, most of their songs are pretty damn good. If this is what passes as mainstream these days, things can’t be too bad.
I’d agree entirely about Maximo Park – nothing that makes me want to get over-excited, but hugely enjoyable for a mainstream pop band.
And I really like the new format by the way. I’ve not been around here for a while because you went quite quiet for a bit, so I apologise for that, but it’s looking really sharp now. I also really like the single-song post format you’ve adopted – works very nicely indeed.