Maxïmo Park share their first new music in nearly four years with a new track Child of The Flatlands, which is accompanied by a visual art piece from experimental designer and video artist – and recent Daniel Avery collaborator – Greg Hodgson.
Child Of The Flatlands is a psychological and geographical rumination on the push-and-pull between our urban surrounds and the persistent grip of nature. With Paul Smith as no stranger to the art of conjuring vivid imagery with his words, the song offers a longing look at the locations that hold such great meaning in youth, and how they inform identity, going on to grieve their gradual loss through the passage of time.
Hodgson’s warping and kaleidoscopic VHS eye casts Teesside as a smudged memory, or half-forgotten dream-like state, in an echo of where the band takes the song.
