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A Certain Trigger

RS: 3of 5 Stars

2005

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Northern England's Maximo Park live at the crossroads of Joy Division, Franz Ferdinand and early Joe Jackson, and they have the skinny ties, suit jackets, angular guitars and synthesizers that come with that terrain. Frontman Paul Smith's vocals are full of New Wave artifice, but he's also more earnest than many of his post-punk peers. "Roon along," he sings in his soft Northern accent, "back to your new man!" The criminally catchy single "Graffiti," one of the album's Top Twenty U.K. hits, boasts the ultimate New Wave chorus: "I'll do graffiti if you sing to me in French/What are we doing here if romance isn't dead?"

ALEX MAR

(Posted: Aug 25, 2005)

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