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Newcastle's Maximo Park will return with a new album this year, two years after the Too Much Information record. 

Due for release on April 21, Risk To Exist will be politically-inspired and focus on world events from the past year. Well, there's plenty to get their teeth into there.

Speaking about the upcoming album, frontman Paul Smith said: "The album is, ultimately, about empathy. Some songs are simple messages of solidarity and others are fuelled by anger at the elitist, established order of British society. There’s a questioning of power throughout and a feeling that there must be a different way of structuring our society in order to alleviate inequality. 

He continued: "Musically, the songs reflect more soulful and groove-based influences, allowing more space in the arrangements than ever before. The central idea is to align great pop melodies with songs that reflect the state of the nation.”

Smith previously hinted at new material back in 2015, telling Digital Spy "I reckon a new Maxïmo Park record is on the distant horizon, we'll see how fast we can write together."

The band played a huge homecoming show at Newcastle's Times Square in July last year.

At the height of the indie boom, the band's debut album, A Certain Trigger, sold over 500,000 copies back in 2005, and spawned the massive hit 'Apply Some Pressure'. In 2015, special shows were held to celebrate the record's 10th anniversary. 

Maximo Park will hit the road once again in May, in support of Risk To Exist. The band will play the following dates:

5 Birmingham O2 Institute 1
6 Newcastle O2 Academy
8 Aberdeen Lemon Tree
9 Glasgow O2 ABC
10 Sheffield Leadmill
12 London Royal Festival Hall
13 Bexhill De La Warr Pavillion
15 Cambridge Junction
16 Cardiff Tramshed
17 Falmouth Princess Pavillion
19 Manchester Albert Hall

The full tracklist for Risk To Exist is as follows:

1. What Did We Do To You To Deserve This?
2. Get High (No, I Don’t)
3. What Equals Love?
4. Risk to Exist
5. I’ll Be Around
6. Work And Then Wait
7. The Hero
8. The Reason I Am Here
9. Make What You Can
10. Respond To The Feeling
11. Alchemy

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