Can we talk about how awesome Parquet Courts are?

is it a joke?

i like the cover art

Wow... I like this band even more than I thought.

Noodley instrumentals for the most part - easily their least essential release.

I enjoyed the live album

the new ep is awesome, but no one gets it

*best read in the disaffected voice of a clerk behind a record store counter in 1997*

i bought it blind because Content Nausea was so good, what a waste of fifteen bucks

it sounds like an experiment in being really boring, either that or they now have opted Blur's 'A Spell (For Money)' b-side as a career template

Annoying and boring, absolutely. Garbage noise jams. What a waste of a cool cover & title.

Never buy anything blind! Seems perhaps significant that it's their first release on Rough Trade. Kind of like a "Look we can release whatever we want to, the label has no control over us" move maybe.

I bought some of my favorite records ever blind - I can't remember ever feeling this gipped! And if that's the idea (I think you're right), they really are fucking daft. Who is the gesture meant for? It's not like Metal Machine Music, it's just irritating and tuneless practice jams that should've never been put to vinyl. They're not even bad in an interesting way, they're just loud and boring. Eager to hear whatever meta-commentary they had in mind though, cuz now im just peeved.

How very punk of them.

Hi, I likes the new e.p.

What do you like about it? I want to like it. I want to justify my fifteen bucks.

It has "Sweet Sister Ray", krautrock, oh what does it have? All sorts.

Saw them tonight. Haven't been keeping up with their releases - loved Light Up Gold and was kind of unimpressed with the Tally EP (tho a pre-show relisten proved it a lot better & more fun than I'd remembered). At first I was like, "what's the deal with these guys? Isn't there a band or 2 in every town that's just this good?" but as the set wore on I found myself really impressed with how much they do with a pretty limited palette and bag of tricks. They kept me engaged for an hour, which at my age & when bed is calling is pretty impressive in my books. I don't think the drummer played one real fill the whole night (YEAH) and the Dave Grohl-looking bass player was really really good - solid and nimble, just like I like 'em. Will def be back on the bandwagon now.

^^^saw them last night, a great time, new stuff sounded pretty good.

Was just reading about the explanation of "Uncast Shadow": “That’s a totally true story about having a gun pulled out on us, and the guy who used that gun in Mississippi ended up killing a guy,” he reveals. “That was the reason I was able to finish it – this guy Paul MacLeod had this 24-hour psychotic Elvis worship museum in his house in Mississippi called Graceland Too, and the third time we went to visit him he pulled a gun out on us because Austin asked him if he had one; I’d already been writing that song about him, but when he killed that guy and I realised that he would have killed the guy with that same gun, that’s what made me finish the song.”

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340792495/with-its-eccentric-owner-gone-what-to-do-with-graceland-too

New songs are great. This is going to be their best record

where can I hear it?

it's certainly better than that shit EP

Two songs with official videos up on Youtube. I like the Berlin one.

still not as good as Light Up Gold. Austin Brown's are still way better

*Austin Brown's songs

I'm definitely an Andrew Savage partisan, but it's nice they have two songwriters with distinct styles. The "Content Nausea EP" has slowly supplanted "Light up Gold" as my favorite of their releases.

I agree, they're stronger for it. My favorite song besides "Borrowed Time" is "Everyday It Starts," killer song.

"Borrowed Time" is definitely one of their best. That's a Savage song, isn't it? Sometimes I have trouble telling their voices apart. I like how "Everyday It Starts" begins so minimalist and then builds and gets more interesting. Brown does write interesting song structures, whereas Savage's tend to be more verse-chorus-verse, though Savage's voice and lyrics are more memorable for me, and they tend to rock a bit harder.

The new album is out today. Anyone else listening yet? Feeling the opener. And Velvet Underground vibe on One Man No City. Especially during the extended solo. Total VU drone going on too.

so this album is pretty good

"Berlin Got Blurry" sounds a great deal like The Saints' "A Minor Aversion," so is this their Eternally Yours? I'd be excited to hear their Prehistoric Sounds next.

yeah this is good

This is dece but is still a runner-up to & lacks the hooks of Light Up Gold.

Yeah I feel the same. I think Sunbathing Animal is better as well actually.

yeah. only track i keep coming back to is "Steady on My Mind." light up gold is the most consistent but with all their records there are only a couple songs that stick for me.

good on them for being so prolific, though.

so this album is pretty good

feel that this level of enthusiasm is pegging red where the quarts are concerned

and i like them alright

it's weird that a band can have so many albums and yet not one riff

they have a couple great ones: drop D riff that comes in halfway thru "Everyday It Starts" and the chorus lick in "Borrowed Time."

There's loads of great riffs on Light Up Gold - Stoned & Starving, Tears O Plenty for starters - I can't really recall a single one on the new album after 3 listens, that's my problem with it.

Um,the 'dust' one for a kickoff?

I would like to like this band more. In some ways they remind me of Butterglory (who I also thought were pretty good, fwiw) in that they're doing moderately catchy tricks with the basic elements of the indie rock playbook, but not really bringing anything hugely exciting to the table. I sort of hope that they stay popular-ish, keep churning out releases, and eventually stumble across something that makes them a great band.

This might be my favorite of their releases yet. Feel like they're working a really rich vein right now.

This is the first of their releases I keep coming back to. Have only ever streamed any of the records, to be fair, but I've possibly already felt compelled to listen to this more times than any of the others. Unfortunate though that 'Already Dead', which currently comes up as the (quite appealing) opener on Spotify, is seemingly absent from physical copies.

Is it not the last track?

Not on my CD it's not, digital bonus track according to Wikipedia.

oh.

It's marked as 'digital only' and as track 1 in Spotify in my part of the world. Someone will likely correct that any instant but it's a pleasingly 'WTF?' way to start the album while it lasts.

There's loads of great riffs on Light Up Gold - Stoned & Starving, Tears O Plenty for starters - I can't really recall a single one on the new album after 3 listens, that's my problem with it.

How bout that Spanish surf of "Berlin Got Blurry"?

Not sure the new album is really about riffs, but the songs seem to hold together well. "Steady on My Mind" seems almost a reprise of "No Idea" from Light Up Gold. That picked guitar figure is very similar.

http://www.avclub.com/article/parquet-courts-sean-yeaton-hates-don-mcleans-arrog-234698

This feature is usually terrible and it's insanely long but I loled pretty heartily at this:

The backward example of it is Chumbawamba. They’re famous for that “Tubthumping” song, but their roots are in anarcho-punk and Crass Records and shit. They have a 7-inch EP that’s fucking phenomenal anarcho-crust-punk. It’s a great record of truly political fucked-up awesome punk rock music. I use it as a party trick. I love busting it out and being like, “Guess who this is.” And they’re like, “I don’t know! Who is it? I’m hammered drunk!” I’m like, “It’s Chumbawamba!” And they’re like, “Who cares?!” But I care. It’s awesome.