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Single Reviews
Single Review: Paul Smith – Our Lady Of Lourdes (Billingham Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 26 October 2010
Sweeping his fringe of one giant curled hair out of his eye and under the brim of his ever-present trilby, Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith has set about making his solo effort, ‘Margins’.
‘Our Lady Of Lourdes’ is the first single taken from that very album and definitely goes some way to showing a different side to the man. Seemingly keen to explore the serious artist lurking within this famously energetic and rather eccentric lead singer, Smith has foregone the obvious routes of big choruses and fast guitars topped off with a Northern twang. Instead he has gone for something far subtler, as echoing guitars and a chugging beat are embellished by strange, layered vocals and wailing.
Less direct and far more haunting in both its lyricism and sound than the student union jukebox noise of Maximo Park, ‘Our Lady…’ sounds like a much more mature Smith, and is all the better for it. JL
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