OUR EARTHLY PLEASURES

'''Our Earthly Pleasures''' is the second album by Newcastle-based indie rock band Maxïmo Park. It was released on April 2, 2007 in the UK (and May 8, 2007 in the US), being preceded by the single "Our Velocity", released two weeks previously, on March 19, 2007.
Album details, including track listing, were released on the NME's website on January 22 2007.^[1] as well as the band's official web site.^[2]. The album was leaked in various places across the internet in March 2007.
Tickets to the April/May ''Our Earthly Pleasures Tour'' went on sale at 9am, February 2 2007. Tickets sold out within one hour to the majority of the venues.
Vocalist Paul Smith states that the title of the album stems from the idea that the album contains more human-oriented themes, and that several tracks were written to embody specific human emotions.
The band did an album launch party at the Baltic Flour Mill, the contemporary art gallery in Gateshead on March 28 2007. Another album launch gig took place at HMV Newcastle at midnight on the April 2, to release the album, hometown fans were the first to get a hold of Our Earthly Pleasures. A third launch party took place in London, at the 100 Club on Oxford Street, on the evening of April 2nd.
The two US bonus tracks were mislabeled on iTunes Music Store, with track 13 being labeled "Distance Makes" when it was actually the song "Pride Before A Fall", "Distance Makes" was included as the other bonus track.
"Our Velocity", "Books From Boxes" and "Girls Who Play Guitars" have been released from "Our Earthly Pleasures"

Contents

Track listing

References

Track listing

# "Girls Who Play Guitars" - 3:12
# "Our Velocity" - 3:20
# "Books From Boxes" - 3:28
# "Russian Literature" - 3:07
# "Karaoke Plays" - 4:08
# "Your Urge" - 3:57
# "The Unshockable" - 3:16
# "By the Monument" - 2:59
# "Nosebleed" - 3:25
# "A Fortnight's Time" - 3:01
# "Sandblasted and Set Free" - 3:58
# "Parisian Skies" - 3:56

References

1. Maximo Park Unveil New Album Details
2. New Single & Album!