Maximo Park - The Kids Are Sick Again/ Tales Of The Semi-Detached

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1...according to our Phil on Thu 30 Apr, 2009.

Maximo Park are back with the first track of their forthcoming album 'Quicken The Heart'. 'The Kids Are Sick Again' is pretty awful to be honest. It's united the office (for once) as it's something none of us liked and past Maximo fans aren't impressed by this new shitter sense of direction. I was talking to Clinton in the pub the other day and the 2 records which were discussed as being pants were this one and the new Patrick Wolf single (absolutely awful!) Anyway this is out on 3 different formats all with different B sides to make you buy buy buy!!

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· Maximo Park are back, following multiple top 20 hits, a #2 album and a Mercury
nomination, with their first single from forthcoming album ‘Quicken the Heart’. ‘The Kids are
Sick Again’ is a blistering, anthemic tune supported by Radio 1, XFM, 6Music, Radio 2 and
more, which builds from a pulsating start through two choruses to a stadium-sized finish.
· Already this year the band have sold out their UK tour (30k tickets), had 95k free
downloads of teaser track ‘Wraithlike’, and taken over Newcastle for a charity show in aid of the
No Surrender charity.
· “It's time we all got some bigger dreams, so thank god for Maximo Park” – NME, “First single
proper The Kids Are Sick Again is an addictive pop song with guts, but there are even bigger
commercial moments here” – Music Week, “I have hope for any album with the good sense to
include a song called "Roller Disco Dreams” – Pitchfork, “Seething with rage again social
complacency and small town boredom, it is escapist pop at its finest. 'The Kids Are Sick Again' is a
thrilling blast that bodes well for its parent album.” – Clash Music.
· The spectacular performance video for the song, by light installation and film auteurs United
Visual Artists (Massive Attack, Battles, V&A Museum), captures the incendiary performance
of the band’s legendary live shows.
· The single is available on two 7” vinyls (both coloured) and CD, each format featuring a brand
new song. The second 7” also features a special acoustic version of the single.