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Single Reviews
Single Review: Maximo Park – The Kids Are Sick Again
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 4 May 2009
There was once a time when the indie dancefloors of Britain shook with the bombastic force of ‘Graffiti’ and ‘Apply Some Pressure’. A few years later, the same dancefloors still trembled a little when DJs dropped ‘Girls Who Play Guitars’ and ‘Our Velocity’. But this… this isn’t even going to get the kids looking up from ordering their one pound fifty vodka-mixers from the bar. That’s not to say it’s not a good song – frontman Paul Smith has always been an expert at setting a scene, and here the lyrics speak beautifully but tragically of summer holidays, boredom, despair and teenage suicide. There’s an outside chance it’ll become an anthem of a summer of discontent, and it could well become a Maxïmo Park fan’s favourite song, but this isn’t the stomping pop joy that we’re used to from the band. It just doesn’t quite hit the spot. DG
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