Maximo Park got da funk. And they got da disco. And they got the big siren klaxoning its way through "Wraithlike," the opening song on their third album Quicken The Heart. Smith, Lukas Wooller (keyboards), Duncan Lloyd (guitars), Archis Tiku (bass) and Tom English (drummer) have made an album that does what it says on the cardiopulmonary resuscitation tin.

A record with synths that sound like guitars, and guitars that sound like they're being played by Giogio Moroder. Nothing natural, but everything exciting.