Maxïmo Park are today sharing a striking new lyric video for Ardour, the latest single to be taken from their new album “Nature Always Wins”. Recorded and released during unquestionably the most challenging period for any artist, and pieced together remotely across the Atlantic with producer Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Deerhunter), “Nature Always Wins” debuted at #2 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart, and heralds some of the band’s most impassioned, stirring, and ambitious work to date. New single Ardour carries a spiky energy, spurred by the biting guest vocal of Pauline Murray from North-East punk greats Penetration.
Singer Paul Smith comments on the song: “Ardour is a song of tension and release. It’s a self-aware, semi-humorous tale about how life and love are often hard work. It’s a thrill to hear the punk energy of our North-East neighbour, Pauline Murray, on one of our songs.”
Through the course of previous singles such as the psychedelic Child Of The Flatlands, Baby, Sleep‘s playful indie-pop, the jerky and animated I Don’t Know What I’m Doing, the widescreen rumination of All Of Me, and political Why Must A Building Burn?, the band have entered into a thrilling new era; one that ties together their story to date in a most cohesive way.
Maxïmo Park’s sold out headline UK tour kick off in October.
Sat 2nd Oct – Boilerroom, Newcastle – SOLD OUT
Sun 3rd Oct – The Mill, Birmingham – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 5th Oct – The Leadmill, Sheffield – SOLD OUT
Wed 6th Oct – EartH Theatre, London – SOLD OUT
Thur 7th Oct – Trinity, Bristol – SOLD OUT
Sat 9th Oct – EartH Theatre, London – SOLD OUT
Sun 10th Oct – O2 Ritz, Manchester – SOLD OUT
Mon 11th Oct – Saint Luke’s, Glasgow – SOLD OUT
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
