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1	Maxïmo Park are a British indie band, from the North East of England. Heavily influenced by the post-punk/New Wave revival of the early 21st Century, they signed to the label Creator/WarpRecords in the 2000s - also known for releasing songs by famous artists such as Music/AphexTwin, Music/{{Squarepusher}}, Music/{{Battles}}, !!! and Music/{{Autechre}}. They are often compared to The Futureheads and Editors. They have released five studio albums so far - ''A Certain Trigger'', ''Our Earthly Pleasures'', ''Quicken The Heart'', ''The National Health'' and ''Too Much Information''. In addition, they have also released a B-Sides compilation titled ''Missing Songs'' and a DVD titled ''Found On Film''. Their most popular song is "Our Velocity" from ''Our Earthly Pleasures'', which has also been featured in many media works, [[SongAssociation more emblematically appearing in the official soundtrack of]] ''VideoGame/ProjectGothamRacing 4''.
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3	They were formed in 2000, and consist of Paul Smith (vocals), Duncan Lloyd (guitar), Archis Tiku (Bass), Tom English (Drums) and Lukas Wooler (keyboards).
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6	!!Their music contains examples of:
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8	* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Mild, rather un-wacky example at the begin of the music video to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebwmjT-toXs ''The National Health'']].
9	* FakeOutFadeOut: "The Unshockable", with bonus abrupt song ending.
10	* HeavyMetalUmlaut: There is one over the "i", but it doesn't affect pronunciation
11	* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Album Naming]]: Four of five studio albums and the DVD are named after snippets of lyrics from one of the songs within, which form {{Album Title Drop}}s. [[note]](Note that for added confusion, the snippets are usually not the song titles - "Quicken the Heart" comes from "Wraithlike" etc.)[[/note]]
12	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: "Did you hear (Say what?) - I've been down to the council today (What did they say?) - they sent me away (No way!) - My word holds no sway (Who's to blame?) - He wore a badge with a name (Oh yeah?) - I guess I couldn't be tamed" ("The National Health"). Also qualifies for CrapsackWorld.
13	* SelfBackingVocalist: Paul provides most of, if not all, the backing vocals for the band.
14	* SurrealMusicVideo: The official music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWwBkA0GqaY ''Our Velocity'']] merges this with PerformanceVideo.

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