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Risk to Exist
Rock · 2017 · 18 tracks · 1h 3m

Risk to Exist

Maxïmo Park

A live-to-tape document of political urgency and soul-inflected indie rock. Sharp, literate, and warmer than their early work.

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It's Maxïmo Park with a soul-inflected groove and a much louder political conscience.

A sharp-edged but empathetic call for social consciousness wrapped in rhythmic indie rock.

Risk to Exist · vs · Maxïmo Park
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The writing leans far further into political than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 18 Tracks · 1h 3m
01
What Did We Do to You to Deserve This?
3:25
01
My Sharp Tongue
4:44
02
Get High (No, I Don’t)
3:30
02
A Brief Dream
3:01
03
All Been Done Before
3:09
03
What Equals Love?
3:45
04
Work and Then Wait (acoustic version)
2:57
04
Risk to Exist
3:39
05
I’ll Be Around
3:44
05
Risk to Exist (acoustic version)
3:40
06
Get High (No, I Don’t) (acoustic version)
3:39
06
Work and Then Wait
3:02
07
I’ll Be Around (Piano version)
3:03
07
The Hero
3:44
08
The Reason I Am Here
3:40
09
Make What You Can
3:49
10
Respond to the Feeling
3:06
11
Alchemy
4:04
Moments Worth Waiting For
The title track's urgent call-and-response refrain that anchors the album's political core.
Mimi Parker's ethereal backing vocals providing a haunting contrast to Paul Smith's sharp delivery on 'What Equals Love?'.
The surprisingly funky, locked-in rhythm section groove that drives 'Get High (No, I Don’t)'.
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