Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith has revealed the band’s recent ‘The National Health‘ album could prove to be their last for some considerable time after admitting they seriously considered their future before recording the LP.
“We ask questions about ourselves before each record,” Smith is quoted as saying in The Sun today. “Before this one we were like, ‘Does the world need another Maximo Park record?’. We wrote some songs and came to the conclusion that it does.”
“To use a sporting analogy, we’re taking it game by game. I’d like to think we’ll make plenty more records but if it’s not working for some reason then we’ll stop.”
Smith later added that Maximo Park now have no firm plans for the future, and criticised the sanitised nature of the current music mainstream.
“Music means a lot to us so we’d feel like we were betraying music if we put out a record that we didn’t believe in,” he continued. “If this turns out to be our last record, maybe we’ll pick it up again in 20 years’ time.”
“It seems to me that the people who programme songs don’t want to offend anybody or put out anything too troubling. So it’s become a bit simpler in the mainstream – let’s keep things nice and straight and not scare anybody.”