There are two main things separating the first Maximo Park album from Our Earthly Pleasures, Maximo Park's newest album.

Firstly, their debut saw the Maximo Park singer cover up what we suspect to be a nasty case of male pattern baldness with a weird Adolf Hitler haircut, whereas for Our Earthly Pleasures he's wisely decided to employ a hat. Secondly, Our Earthly Pleasures is basically the sound of Maximo Park screaming "MAKE US FAMOUS IN AMERICA" a million times louder than on A Certain Trigger. This new attitude can be seen on songs like new single Books From Boxes. Books From Boxes is the sort of mid-tempo semi-anthem that only exist to try and convince people that the person who wrote it is clever and deep and emotionally mature. Sadly, we're none of these things, so we're not that fond of Books From Boxes – a fact that Maximo Park have already noticed and will try to remedy on their next album, the tentatively-titled Barry Done A Big Guff In The Shop And Some Went Up My Nose And I Cried – but here's the Books From Boxes video for you to make up your own mind, anyway.