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For a band who've been making consistently good records for the past three years, it's a sad state of affairs when certain sections of the popular music press feel the need to criticise Maximo Park's singer for hiding his receding hairline under a bowler hat.
After all, who cares whether their frontman is follically challenged or not, particularly when the band themselves are capable of churning out songs as good as Girls Who Play Guitars'.
OK, so it's not necessarily quite up to the magnificent standards of 'Graffiti' or 'Apply Some Pressure', but even so it still manages to knock spots off 99% of the competition out there. What's more, you don't need a tub of Peter Coppola Thickening Cream to appreciate it, so from this moment onwards, let's have no more mentions of what or why Paul Smith chooses to wear on his head, alright?
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I like this and the band. Not as good as the last one but still a decent tune. It is quite disappointing some of the press seem to have turned against them. Looking forward to seeing them at reading as they always put on a great show.
I think
this song deserves at least an 8.
i think
they criticise him because they're going bald and are proud? is there not some daft bald foundation like the Beard Liberation Front, only for slapheads?
This is alright
but the album isn't a patch on the last one, and I find that the 'samey' style of most songs irritates after a while - especially the extremely annoying keyboard player who always looks completely full of false excitement on stage.
i think...
...in a way I prefer it. The end of Parisian Skies is also probably among my favouritest loveliest endings to a record ever. Woo Maxïmo Park.
7 is fair
Feels better on the album though
This is an annoying song
What is he on about? Girls who play guitars?
They should be in the kitchen.
I want to see
him without his hat on, does he wear it went he's sleeping? Plus, he jumps around a lot, there must be some sort of pictorial evidence of his male pattern baldness.
Slaphead!
You have critics moaning about his hair, then you have critics moaning about critics moaning about his hair.
Just review the music tard boys.
Hats are the nemesis
to Shockwaves-sponsored music journalists, so therefore must be defeated through snide critisism.
Sounds fair
maybe a tad generous, especially considered next to the best tracks off Trigger. 6.5/10
Baldie
He's obviously not comfortable with a shaved head so he has taken The Edge route. Trouble is he's not a guitarist hiding in the background.
It is so tough being a serious artiste.
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