Maximo Park's Paul Smith & Field Music's Peter Brewis announce collaborative album

Maximo Park front-man Paul Smith has collaborated with Field Music frontman Peter Brewis for an album release, based on Smith's travel writing and Brewis' musical arrangements. Their collaborative album "​Frozen By Sight" will be released on 17th of November via the ever consistently good Memphis Industries.

If you can't wait to hear what it sounds like, scroll to the bottom to hear track 4 off the album "Barcelona (At Eye Level)".

"Frozen By Sight" tracklisting

1. Old Odeon
2. Santa Monica
3. Exiting Hyde Park Towers
4. Barcelona (At Eye Level)
5. L.A. Street Cleaner
6. A Town Called Letter
7. Mount Wellington Rises
8. Budapest
9. Perth to Bunbury
10. Philly
11. Trevone
12. St Peter’s

10 Acts You Have To See At Standon Calling

We're off to Standon Calling this year, and with the Hertfordshire festival being a highly respected event this year they've managed to bag some quite amazing bands and performers. Check out who we're excited to see below.

Maximo Park

Now here's a band that's well use to playing the festival circuit, having been around for a while now expect the Newcastle band to bring out the hits and give you a performance to remember for the rest of the summer!




Peace

The B-Town boys are back on the road and with a new album in the wings, expect a cover of Binary Finary's "1998" along-side some of their hits such as "Wraith", "Bloodshake" and new songs "Money" and "World Pleasure".




Waste

The local lads - Stevenage - are opening the mainstage for this year after winning Standon Calling's un-signed competition. They've played a handful of shows so far, but you can check out their debut demo "Blow" below, which, of course we love!




Toy 

Heavenly signees released their debut album last year and are continuing with the push with playing some festivals. Expect some dark and brooding songs from the London band.




Saint Raymond 

The Nottingham youngster will be bringing himself and his band down to Standon to play a selection of songs from his forthcoming album, expect some bright and spritely indie jangles with infectious hooks.




East India Youth

William Doyle, better known by his stage name East India Youth will be bringing his electronic tracks from Bournemouth to the field in Standon performing tracks from his first album, "Total Strife Forever".




Say Lou Lou

Australian and Swedish by genetics, the sisterly duo will be performing their dreamy electronic smash hits to Standon, we're expecting some gorgeous vocals and some great melodies, do not miss this set!




Maddox

Re-formed for their yearly jaunt to the festival, the band shares members with Waste (see above). But with some old-school Indie tunes amongst their repertoire be sure to stick around and wake up early for these guys!





Amber Run

Having been on tour with Kodaline in recent months the band would've surely got a whole lot better over the past year, and with their latest melodic anthem "I Found" just being released expect to hear some future hits in their set!




Eliza and the Bear

Having seen them back in 2011/2012 - I can't honestly remember when it was -  playing their first ever show in London I'm very excited to see how they've progressed since. With an album on the cards soon be sure to pop on over to see them play!

Maximo Park release video for "Lydia, The Ink Will Never Dry"

Maximo Park are gearing up for their new album "Too Much Information" which is due for release 3rd of February.

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Daily Download... Maximo Park - Hips And Lips (Trophy Boyfriend Remix)

As with all releases these days, the single has been remixed by everyone who is capable. This is the Trophy Boyfriend remix of 'Hips and Lips', it's one of the best Maximo Park remixes out there so why not download it today!





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Stream the new Maximo Park album 'The National Health'

The band has uploaded their 4th album 'The National Health' by clicking on the image of the album cover. It'll take you to a special page where you can listen to the opening minute of each track before it's official release next Monday.



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Daily Download... Maximo Park - Hips And Lips (Errors Remix)

Errors have unveiled a new remix of Maximo Park's new single 'Hips and Lips' - and better still, are offering the track as a free download! The free download online comes just before the bands release of their version of 'Hips and Lips' on June 11, taken from their greatly anticipated album.





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Friday's Finest

This week we are going back to our roots with Bloc Party and Maximo Park, also we've got 3 amazing up-and-coming bands to fill in the gaps. So here it is, 5 tracks that you MUST listen to over the weekend. Have fun! With love from us and Slate The Disco



Slate the Disco: Ty Segall Band – Wave Goodbye
The Ty Segall band are Ty Segall Mikal Cronin, Charlie Moothart, and Emily Rose Epstein, and on June 25th they release début album, 'Slaughterhouse' and if 'Wave Goodbye' is anything to go by it's going to be epic.




It's All Indie: Animal Kingdom - Strange Attractor
This song isn't out in the UK yet that hasn't stopped them building a big fan-base over in their native country. 'Strange Attractor' is the first single off the new Animal Kingdom album, I can see this song being used in loads of movies for years to come!




Slate The Disco: Violet - I Come Undone
Violet release their début single on Luv Luv Luv Records on May 7th, 'Y.O.U.' from the double A-side single has been the perfect introduction and now we have 'I Come Undone’ to follow on the universal tales of heartbreak and falling in love; of painful lows and intoxicating highs threaded throughout Violet's tracks. Violet will play Cambridge on May 13th, when they support Spector at the Cambridge Union.




It's All Indie: Bloc Party - She's Hearing Voices
Record Store Day was and always will be a big part of my year, this year Bloc Party decided to re-release their début single. I've been playing the 7" continuously ever since I got my hands on it (again). You can listen to the very first recording of it below, in all of it's UN-edited glory!




Unanimous: Maximo Park - Hips And Lips




...and until next week!

Maximo Park announce details of 'The National Health'

Maximo Park have revealed that their new album will be called 'The National Health' and will be out on June 11.

Smith told NME that it had been important for the band to take a hiatus before working on the album, which is the follow-up to their 2009 album 'Quicken The Heart' and was recorded with Pixies and Foo Fighters producer Gil Norton.



The tracklisting for the album is (in order):
When I Was Wild
The National Health
Hips and Lips
The Undercurrents
Write This Down
Reluctant Love
Until the Earth Would Open
Banlieue
This Is What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
Wolf Among Men
Take Me Home
Unfamiliar Places
Waves of Fear




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