The last time Maximo Park spoke to The National Student, it was 2005, just before releasing indie-disco favourite ‘Apply Some Pressure’. Two years on, on the eve of their heavier second album, Our Earthly Pleasures, drummer Tom English tells magazine of their whirlwind success and how they’re not set on stopping any time soon.

Battles off-kilter aural algorithms have been the surprise hit of 2007. Tom Cassidy caught up with drummer John Stanier for a chat.