Being online nearly all day most days I listen to a variety of music over the interwebs that keeps my appetite for new music quelled and my IPod full. As a result I have found that of late I haven’t had the urge to buy any specific music albums and have instead reverted back to the days of comprising my own play lists from individual sounds I have liked.
This is very much a different stance to what I have been used over the past 5 years or so, where I have enjoyed listening to entire albums of artists that I have unearthed. That is however until I heard a song from Maximo Park entitled Books From Boxes off of their album titled Our Earthly Pleasures.
I felt this was a good song, but having not heard much music from Maximo Park in the past, they had a sound I felt was inline with other bands that I like. I eventually got the album and I have to say that it is up there with the best I have heard this year.
It is the first artist album I have found myself lusting after for quite some time, since the Artic Monkeys release of Favourite Worst Nightmare back in April. It seems to have broken the lull of new music artists not appealing to me, and I now have the thirst for several new albums recently (or soon to be) released including Biffy Clyro, Kanye West and Athlete.
