Video: Maxïmo Park: "Our Velocity"
What could be better than one Maxïmo Park, except, you, know, multiple Maxïmo Parks? The clean-cut band members look a bit different than we're used to seeing them in the first video for forthcoming album Our Earthly Pleasures. And it looks as if lead singer Paul Smith's old look-- a sort of 40-year-old-virgin impersonation-- hid a head of curly hair. Like their previous videos, "Our Velocity" uses one simple concept throughout. Here the band is multiplied about five times, but they all play together seamlessly. While the band now looks less clenched and uptight, "Our Velocity" is just as angular and sharp, although the chorus gets wrapped up in pillowy keyboard chords that soften Smith's still-biting lyrics.