Maximo Park: Risk to Exist review – tub-thumping with soul

(Cooking Vinyl)“I will attempt to articulate what’s wrong/ Even if there’s not much to say,” asserts Maximo Park’s Paul Smith on I’ll Be Around. Sure enough, the Newcastle quartet throw themselves into the political mire with vim on the likes of build-and-release Farage broadside Get High (No, I Don’t) or the title track, which berates lack of empathy for refugees over a chopping riff and vamping organ. Smith’s lyrics, crystal clear to the point of