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The difficult second album is often the death knell for bands. There is always another younger band with tighter jeans, sharper haircuts, and an album full of classic tracks that aren’t yet being flogged on Austereo (sorry, Franz).
Enter Maxïmo Park. They’ve got an umlaut, style, and with A CERTAIN TRIGGER, a killer debut album that is crammed with edgy hooks and lyrics that read like a cultural studies textbook for jaded romantics.
It would be a shame for Tom Vek to be consumed and spat out like a liquorice jellybean by the hype-machine that is inevitably about to engulf him. Vek has a sound that could be said to grab at the coat tails of the 'new-Eurowave' revival alongside the likes of Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand or perhaps even reveal a certain compliance to musical trends.
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