If you’ve seen Maximo Park live, you know two things: 1. That they’re a great live band and 2. Their lead singer, Paul Smith (no, not that Paul Smith) looks like Jason Schwartzman on speed.
Anyway, they’ve decided to release a new “companion” album to their LP A Certain Trigger that features 9 tracks from the b-sides of the band’s UK and European singles and also “never-before-heard” demo versions of “Apply Some Pressure,” “Graffiti,” and “Once, A Glimpse.” The album is called Missing Songs, which I guess is sort of a misnomer seeing as how so many of these songs have officially been released before…how can something be missing if you know exactly where to find it? Er…am I thinking too much about this?
Yes, ok…”Apply Some Pressure” is one of my favorite songs off ACT, so I thought I’d share the demo version that’s found on Missing Songs [sic], which is available in stores on February 21st.
DOWNLOAD: “Apply Some Pressure” (Demo Version) by Maximo Park
Hey doll. We have two additional tracks over here. “A19” is my fave.
there’s a third thing i know: the keyboardist does dorky karate chop moves because he has nothing to play most of the time.