Maximo Park - Stream of life (Indie exlusive eco-splatter) LP

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.

1 Your Own Worst Enemy
2 Favourite Songs
3 Dormant 'Til Explosion (Feat. Vanessa Briscoe Hay)
4 The End Can Be As Good As the Start
5 Armchair View
6 Quiz Show Clue
7 Stream of Life
8 Doppelgänger Eyes
9 I Knew That You'd Say That
10 The Path I Chose
11 No Such Thing As a Society