At a Generator SPEAR:TALK event last week in Middlesbrough, Maximo Park dropped some hints about where the band are headed next. Read on to find out how their future direction may confound fans of the huge North East pop act.
Speaking about new songs played at a riotous intimate gig at Inside Out in Darlington recently, singer Paul Smith said: “I would really like to write a concept album. My writing has always been very personal in the past and there are a few things I’ve written recently that I’m trying to bend to meet a concept”.
The singer joked that the concept album may involve capes and added, somewhat intriguingly: “I am going to grow designer stubble and play the keytar!”
This came to light as part of an insightful talk given by Smith and keyboard player Lukas Wooller last Thursday as part of a Generator SPEAR Maximo Park special, in which the band revealed that they are currently outside of a record contract and are going to record a new album before deciding on how it will be released.
“There are more options now than when we first came out, with the way the industry has changed” said Wooller. Speaking about the recent remix project that Maximo Park put out through Narc magazine in collaboration with Generator, Wooller said: “In the end we got 35 remixes back and had some amazing results. It was like somebody giving you a really nice unexpected Christmas present”.
To read the full transcript, go here.
To hear all of the 'Quicken the Heart’ remixes and to find out more about Maximo Park, go to their website.
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