To launch their fifth album, Maximo Park have created their own beer, Maximo No 5. Surely, though, red wine would have been the more apt tipple – few groups better conjure up images of solitary garrets and slim volumes. After the politicised outburst of 2012's The National Health, this record is closer to business as usual: leader Paul Smith's lyrics portray him as the bookish romantic stymied by constantly overthinking – but, this time, the sound has been subtly enhanced by electronics and actual beats. Is It True? enrobes its nerd-in-love narrative in gloomy synth swooshes; Brain Cells is heavy with dubby disquiet; and the sinuous Leave This Island could be their first song to feature no guitars at all. But these are essentially a garnish on the guitarry main dish, and to Smith's emotionally unguarded yelping, which remain as catchy as ever. Her Name was Audre, inspired by American feminist poet Audre Lorde, is this band at its finest: quirky, infectious and built around the chorus, "You never wanted to leave the local library".