Maxïmo Park confirm exclusive online
live-streamed show for 8:30pm GMT
on Saturday March 6th
New album “Nature Always Wins” arrives Feb 26 via Prolifica Inc
UK headline tour dates announced for 2021
As the release of Maxïmo Park’s highly-anticipated new album “Nature Always Wins” draws ever closer, today they are confirming news of an exclusive online live-streamed show. The performance will celebrate the release of the album, and take place on Saturday March 6th, live from the Riverside, Newcastle. The band will play songs from the new album live for the very first time, as well as a selection of their biggest hits.
Fans can get access to the live stream buy purchasing an album bundle with ticket HERE.
Lead singer Paul Smith comments on the upcoming show:
“Since we can’t play live in front of a crowd at the moment, we’ve decided to give a live, streamed broadcast from an (almost) empty Riverside venue in Newcastle. We’re excited to be introducing some songs from our new album, ‘Nature Always Wins’, as well as blasting through some old favourites. Join us at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday March 6th…”
The band also play a run of album launch shows which will kick off in April, in conjunction with some of the country’s best-loved record stores. Tickets are on sale now HERE. Full dates below.
Thur 22 April – Kingston – Pryzm – with Banquet (soc. distanced)
Thur 22 April – Kingston – Pryzm – with Banquet (soc. distanced)
Fri 23 April – Kingston – Pryzm – w/ Banquet (soc. distanced) – SOLD OUT
Fri 23 April – Kingston – Pryzm – w/ Banquet (soc. distanced) – SOLD OUT
Sat 24 April – Newcastle – Tyne Theatre (soc. distanced)
Sat 24 April – Newcastle – Tyne Theatre (soc. distanced) – SOLD OUT
Tue 24 Aug – Dundee – Fat Sam’s – with Assai Records
Wed 25 Aug – Edinburgh – The Liquid Room – with Assai Records
Sat 28 Aug – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club – with Crash Records
Sun 29 Aug – Preston – Blitz – with Action Records
Mon 30 Aug – Liverpool – The Arts Club – with Jacaranda Records
Wed 01 Sept – Coventry – The Empire – with HMV
Thur 02 Sept -Oxford – O2 Academy2 Oxford – with Truck Store
Fri 3rd Sept – The Brook – Southampton – with Vinilo
Sun 05 Sept – Bexhill – De La Warr Pavilion – with Music’s Not Dead
Mon 06 Sept – Norwich – The Waterfront – with HMV
Headline UK tour dates are as follows, and on sale HERE.
Tues 8th June – Bristol, Trinity
Weds 9th June – London, EartH – SOLD OUT
Thurs 10th June – London, EartH
Sat 12th June – Manchester, O2 Ritz
Sun 13th June – Newcastle, Boiler Shop – SOLD OUT
Tues 15th June – Sheffield, The Leadmill
Weds 16th June – Glasgow, Saint Lukes
Thurs 17th June – Birmingham, The Mill
The news comes as the band are sharing new single All Of Me, which this week jumps straight onto the BBC 6 Music playlist. It is a song that comes to exemplify the approach that Grammy-winning producer Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Deer Hunter) instilled into the recording process. Making use of the quiet and the space, it unfolds into an expansive offering to match their most widescreen outings. Lead singer Paul Smith details the song:
“It’s a love song about the power of song itself, buoyed by the uplifting music in the chorus. It’s also about domesticity and family life being valid subject matter for a pop song. The more intimate verses are bits of advice to someone who has changed your perspective on life. Big themes!”
Of the accompanying video he continues: “Both the quiet verses and the anthemic choruses are reflected (pun intended) in the video, which was influenced by an intimate film of Arthur Russell playing cello, as well as Bruce Lee flighting within a hall of mirrors in Enter The Dragon!”
More about new album “Nature Always Wins”
“Nature Always Wins” arrives as something of an examination, zeroing in on the notion of the self, identity as a band, and that of humanity as a whole. The album’s title nods to the famous Nature vs Nurture debate. Discussing whether change is capable under the influence of time, perspective, environment or if we are destined to be bound by our own genetics, it asks, “who are we, who do we want to be, and do we have any control over it?”.
Refining their approach as a three-piece, writing began last summer with Smith, Lloyd and English seeking a different kind of fourth member – a producer who was also a musician. Fitting the bill came Atlanta-based Grammy-winning producer Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Deerhunter) who afforded the band freedom to play and create. What wasn’t anticipated was how that freedom would be soon be stripped, as Lockdown restrictions left the band making the most of technological advances to perform real-time recording sessions across the ocean – themselves in Newcastle and Liverpool, with Allen at the helm in Atlanta.
Maxïmo Park – “Nature Always Wins” track listing:
1. Partly Of My Making
2. Versions Of You
3. Baby, Sleep
4. Placeholder
5. All Of Me
6. Ardour (featuring Pauline Murray)
7. Meeting Up
8. Why Must A Building Burn
9. I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
10. The Acid Remark
11. Feelings I’m Supposed To Feel
12. Child Of The Flatlands