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Classic Rock MagazineOct 11, 2024They mix things up with restrained, pondering songs like the acoustic-driven Armchair View and the album's jaunty title track. [Nov 2024, p.73]
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Oct 7, 2024‘Stream of Life’ is a reflective, uplifting and intelligent album that stands out in the Maxïmo Park canon and is full of texture, soaring melodies and sagacious storytelling and lyrics.
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Record CollectorOct 7, 2024Singer Vanessa Briscoe-Hay adds an arch local flavour on Dormant Til Explosion, but it's the Beautiful fingerpicked atmospherics of Armchair View which bring new colours to add in, to last the course for the next two decades. [Nov 2024, p.100]
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Oct 7, 2024There’s nothing particularly new on Stream Of Life, but that’s not an insult – in fact, listening to the jerky, frantic pop of I Knew That You’d Say That, you’re almost transported back to those heady A Certain Trigger days. Maxïmo Park have steadily become a reliable, consistent band – this is another example of their quiet excellence.
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Under The RadarOct 7, 2024Stream of Life find the band distilling its best elements into one of its best sets. [Aug - Oct 2024, p.106]