Maximo Park – Stream of Life

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Maxïmo Park announce their eighth studio album, ‘Stream of
Life’, via Lower Third. The road to ‘Stream Of Life’ saw the band
link up once again with Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Animal
Collective), GRAMMY-winning producer of 2021’s near-chart-
topping, Pandemic-era tour de force, ‘Nature Always Wins’, and
as a result it marks the first time they have all been together in a
studio to make an album since 2016.
 It finds the band in perhaps the most reflective state they’ve
been in. Lead singer Paul Smith, this most lit-pop of lyric
writers, took the album title from a short story by Ukrainian-born
Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, inspired by both its stream of
consciousness style and the way it prompts reflection on the
inner mechanisms of people’s minds. It begs the question of
why they do the things that they do, even when they can seem
counterintuitive to the outsider. There’s an inner flow to every
individual – a stream of life.
 Commenting on the album, lead singer Paul Smith says: “We’ve
always tried to document the world around us at each stage of
our lives while subtly nudging the music forward each time – this
record continues that mission. It was great to be back in a
studio after recording remotely last time. Working with Ben in
Atlanta, and Burke in Byker, was as stimulating as it’s ever
been, and I think we captured that energy. Thematically, the
record covers passion, politics, and privilege amongst other
topics.”