Maxïmo Park’s anticipated new album, ‘Nature Always Wins’ is currently leading the way in the official albums chart midweek update as it sits at #1.
As the band’s first new album together in almost 4 years, ‘Nature Always Wins’ has spawned much excitement from fans and scored them two BBC 6 Music A-listed singles (‘Baby, Sleep’ and ‘All Of Me’), as well as their Album Of The Day slot last Friday. However, over the weekend, some notable fans of the band have jumped to assist Maxïmo Park in what they feel could be their first official UK #1 album.
In a Twitter post on Sunday night, ahead of Maxïmo Park’s Twitter Listening Party with Tim Burgess, Mogwai frontman Stuart Braithwaite – current owner of the UK’s #1 album with ‘As The Love Continues’ – was the first to tweet and rally people around the hashtag #MaximoPark4Number1.
A week after Mogwai’s historic chart feat, it marks something of a revolution in the way indie artists are embracing the All-In-This-Together spirit as they battle the twin forces of the pandemic and Brexit.
With the aim of bringing the best of the indie music scene to wider audiences, showcasing culturally relevant records that, in this instance, play on themes spanning social injustice to parenthood, it is proving to be something that the public are responding to in greater numbers than ever before.
BBC Radio 1’s Greg James also backed Maxïmo Park in a particularly impassioned Instagram post, paying tribute to a band that he played so often at the start of his burgeoning career, while on student radio. He said “Songs from ‘A Certain Trigger’ and ‘Our Earthly Pleasures’ were on repeat during my student radio days. This new album has come along at a time when we’re all feeling totally all over the place. I still have moments of complete existential meltdown (I had one last Friday actually). I’ve listened to the album constantly over this sunny weekend and I’ve felt comforted and inspired all over again. I love them more than ever.”
Anyone wanting to make sure Maxïmo Park have as big an impact as possible should grab a copy of the album before midnight tonight HERE.
Maximo Park will also head to Riverside, Newcastle for two-dates this September, with tickets on sale now from HERE.
