![]() – “My Year With the Wizard” (Kingston, NY USA) Website | Facebook (fan page) | Instagram (inactive)īattle Ave. Pre-orders available here and directly on Bandcamp. Parquet Courts’ seventh album (if one includes Parkay Quarts), Sympathy for Life, will be released October 22nd via Rough Trade. Sometimes I wonder how long ’till I’m a face in one?” Walk at a downtown pace and treasure the crowds that once made me act so annoyed Hearing the song I’ll sing and food that I’ll taste and all the drinks that I’ll consumeĪs we take streets I don’t walk down cause I want to avoid “I’m making plans for the day all of this is through Those days are still a long ways away, but the Brooklyn-based quartet remind us what awaits. It is an anthem of liberation, of days when we can actually return to normal. It is an anthem made for, well, strutting down Main Street with one’s head held high. Parquet Courts’ first new single in three years is a funkdefied combustion of David Byrne and Blur. With so many wildly successful and creative records to their name, what more could Andrew Savage (lead vocals/guitar), Austin Brown (guitar), Sean Yeaton (bass), and Max Savage (drums) do? Well, the answer is plenty, as displayed on “Walking at a Downtown Pace”. Unsurprisingly, most of these records made our year-end Favorite Albums list. 2018’s Human Performance, meanwhile, was a wide-ranging but intelligent effort that still rocked. In the following year, they surprised with the largely instrumental Monastic Living, which was a brilliant critique of people’s obsession with social media. Content Nausea, which the band released under the pseudonym Parkay Quarts, saw the quartet reinvent ’70s garage-rock while Sunbathing Animalwas an adrenaline-filled rocker. In 2014, they released two awesome records. Their first two albums, American Specialties and Light Up Gold, were quick bursts of blistering post-punk and garage rock with most of the songs coming in at 90 seconds or less. The shapeshifters better known as Parquet Courts have proven time and time again they are completely unpredictable. ![]() Parquet Courts – “Walking at a Downtown Pace” (Brooklyn, USA) The mini-playlist begins with one of the great, shape-shifting indie bands of the 21st Century. Similarly, each of the artists and bands are pushing music to new heights and limits. 118 edition is a throwback, as each of the eight songs recall eras when music reached incredible creative peaks.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |