Our Velocity
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| Single by Maxïmo Park | ||||||||||||||||
| from the album Our Earthly Pleasures | ||||||||||||||||
| A-side | "Our Velocity" | |||||||||||||||
| B-side |
"Distance Makes" "Mary O'Brien" | |||||||||||||||
| Released | 19 March 2007 | |||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, digital download | |||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||||||||||||||
| Genre | Post-punk revival | |||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:26 | |||||||||||||||
| Label | Warp Records | |||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Duncan Lloyd, Paul Smith | |||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Gil Norton | |||||||||||||||
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"Our Velocity" is the first single from Our Earthly Pleasures, the second album from the band, Maxïmo Park. The single was released two weeks prior to the release of the album, on 19 March 2007.
The music was written by Duncan Lloyd and the lyrics by Paul Smith of the band.
The video of the song features the band being multiplied in a white room while playing the song. It was directed by Nima Nourizadeh.
The song has been highly regarded and in VH1's "50 Greatest Songs of 2007 So Far" it placed at number 1.
The song became the band's first UK Top 10 single, reaching #9 on 25 March 2007 on the UK Singles Chart and #1 on the UK indie chart[1] within a week of its physical release.
In August 2007, a segment of the song was used as the title music for the BBC coverage of the Reading and Leeds Festival.
Teletext's music page Planet Sound named "Our Velocity" as the best single of 2007.
The song features in the 2007 video game Project Gotham Racing 4. The song was featured on Hollyoaks in 2007. It is also featured in the 2009 music video game Guitar Hero: On Tour Modern Hits
Track listing
- CD:
- "Our Velocity"
- "Distance Makes"
- "Mary O'Brien"
- 7" #1 (white vinyl):
- "Our Velocity"
- "Pride Before A Fall"
- 7" #2 (red vinyl):
- "Our Velocity"
- "Robert Altman"
- 1st Week Only Download:
- "Our Velocity" (Home Demo Version)
- "Our Velocity" (First Live Performance)