Maximo Park

Northern England's Maximo Park live at the crossroads of Joy Division, Franz Ferdinand and
early Joe Jackson, and they have the skinny ties, suit jackets, angular guitars and
synthesizers that come with that terrain. Frontman Paul Smith's vocals are full of New Wave
artifice, but he's also more earnest than many of his post-punk peers. "Roon along," he
sings in his soft Northern accent, "back to your new man!" The criminally catchy... More >