Maximo Park (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)
Maximo Park are keeping their tongues sharpened on new single Get High (No I Don’t).
“The song is about resistance in the face of repetition and coercion,” frontman Paul Smith says. “The video reflects that theme and the frantic groove of the music as the dancing protagonist reaches breaking point.”
That video was directed by James & James and is helping to trail the upcoming Risk To Exist LP, out on April 21st. “It took about thirty minutes from hearing Get High (No I Don’t) to having worked up the simple creative of a person rebelling against the strictures of society – all choreographed – starting off on point, with and on the beat of normality, and then, increasingly, getting out of sync / control – finishing with him tearing the set down,” the directors reveal.
