NME.com reports that Maximo Park will be heading into the studio as soon as they're done with the upcoming ShockWaves NME Awards Tour.
They quote frontman Paul Smith as saying: "It would be easy to keep touring. Our success to whatever level has been quite steady, there's not been too much hype surrounding us and it would be very easy to keep growing and see how far we can push it."
But he admits some eagerness to return to the studio and get on with that second LP: "We've been playing these songs for the last three years of our lives and we've written a ton of new songs that we want to play and release. So we'll start recording our next album in the spring after the NME tour. We've evolved sound-wise and I think when a band stop being creative and just try flogging what they've got that can be dangerous, so rather than the possibility of falling into that trap we're go into the studio to replenish our creative energy."