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Maximo Park return with ‘Child Of The Flatlands’
It’s their first new music in almost four years.
Following the release of ‘Risk To Exist’ back in 2017, Maximo Park are back with brand new music, sharing new track ‘Child Of The Flatlands’, accompanied by a video directed by Greg Hodgson.
“‘Child Of The Flatlands’ is an affectionate look at both the psychic and physical edgelands of the town where I grew up, punctuated by snapshots of modern Britain as viewed from a distant hillside,” Paul Smith explains. “It’s about the inevitability of nature (in all senses of the word) over the order we try to impose on it. The quiet, melancholy choruses lament the loss of community spaces for marginalised people, and the overall pace is meant to evoke a long walk, collaging found sound, strings and insistent piano to create a mildly psychedelic pop odyssey.
We commissioned Greg Hodgson to reflect the distorted blur of youth through his VHS lens, and to create a dreamlike vision of Teesside that reflects the episodic nature of the music. Hopefully viewers will recognise something of their own youth, playing in places where nature encroaches upon the urban landscape.”
Watch it now below.
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