Maximo Park: The National Health - review

V2"We're in a global recession, and everyone is being bombarded with bouncy, happy music," singer Paul Smith said recently – a bit richly, given the jauntiness of Maximo Park's own output. The difference is that if Maximo weren't bouncing they'd be crying, and on their fourth album, the formless anxiety previously kept at bay by those bright, jerky guitars seems to be getting the upper hand. The title track, as spiky a thing as they've ever done, is riven by Smith's increasingly frantic mayday...

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