Can we talk about how awesome Parquet Courts are?

human performance is my favourite, LUG not far behind. sunbathing animal is a step down from both but still has a bunch of great songs

Loved stoned and starving and everyday it starts but this new vibe is like some indie band synthesized in the adult swim laboratory or something

Yes, that’s a perfect description...

And the fact that AS’s lyrics tend to be so stridently-yet-vaguely “oppositional” (or whatever) sort of increases the dissonance.

Yeah, that new video and song are pretty atrocious.

Oof...

https://youtu.be/yLzs8SWLRoA

"I can't believe I used to like these guys."

http://www.the80smovieclub.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/repo-man-circle-jerks.jpg

such a weird direction to go

wish them all the best ofc

but can we just enjoy this once more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACj-F63GK_M

I thought this was a “shreds” video for a minute

Wow, they have kind of turned into that joke band from the tv show Love. (the one that plays theme songs to movies that never had theme songs).

i'm into the Ellen performance. why not you know? song is OK

not sure why they are promoting this song so hard but ppl on this thread need to clam down. the first song they released off the new record is outstanding so i'm not going to join ppl jumping off a bridge just yet

clam or calm, both ok

This song/video/performance etc. feels to me like they suddenly wanted/needed to "make it big"; wracked their brains to figure out how to achieve that goal; suddenly remembered a style that worked for some bands in 2003; and are now trying... so... hard... to make it work for them.

And I have zero problem about bands I like "making it big" (heck - the bigger, the better)... but I watch/listen to this and I am embarrassed for them.

I definitely cringed and am thinking that this is no way to make a case for the mediocre white men.

I'm not sure their aspirations for this song are anything grander than being able to do things like play on Ellen, which they seem to have accomplished.

yeah

horrible song and performance

Damn that's literally the worst music I ever heard and def the dumbest bassline of all time jeeze Louise p.u.

The shots of Ellen crowd white ppl dancing is icing

I'm not sure their aspirations for this song are anything grander than being able to do things like play on Ellen, which they seem to have accomplished.

I suspect their goal is to have the song placed in one or more national advertising campaigns. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Bands gotta eat.)

this is a much better showcase (they do of course also play old songs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF1WRB9zRAM

The first song reminds me of that (half-)tongue-in-cheek old D.C. band No Trend -- except PC are "serious," I guess.

Dude reminds me of a Fred Armisen character.

Nice groove at the end.

Thanks for posting this! The first song sounds like a classic Minutemen-riff/cover - really good.

I can understand the criticism up to a point about a more "$$$" approach. I remember reading an interview after the release of the Monastic Living EP where they said something along the lines of "we are touring all the time without making any money".

have to admit my heart kinda sank when the curtain went up and I saw that back line of extra players. The song itself is pretty meh, but it does seem like a weirdly clumsy careerist move, like it isn't as terrible as, say, the last Yeah Yeah Yeahs album but why do this now.

dude doesn't look like Armisen, he looks like a McPoyle fwiw

A. Savage is one of the strangest frontmen i've ever seen live. at once so awkward and vicious. they are very good live, i wonder if they're bringing any extra players on tour.

LOL

i know this board is not big fans of Tame Impala but they are doing, do something completely different with much better results. not a fan of that clip/song.

Hope the record will be more like the 1st single and (much) less like the 2nd one

yeah Almost Had To Start a Fight is good

new song & video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iir8HyAKqQM

Sounds a little like an R.E.M. song

(specifically, one w/Mike Mills vox - like "Texarkana")

Boring

Always liked the Savage songs better

Sounds a little like an R.E.M. song

Yes, I can definately hear Peter Buck´s signature strumming style. But why are they teasing so many songs? I prefer to have the album release now.

Boring

― nostormo

yup. i'm pretty evenly split on Savage & Brown, i think they both have a lot of duds.

First half of the record is good. 2nd half is sometime boring sometime just plain bad.

Sounds like a Parquet Courts album

Mmm..i think HP was better. More homogenic.
Though Total Football and Had To Start A Fight are some of their best records

The Austin Brown songs are the weakest link i think.

They try new sounds and genres here but they should stick with what they know best if they asked me which of course they won't lol

what they know best = that well is pretty dry

Yes they are not the greatest/most original band but i like them enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZTK_NneOA

there's a lot to like about the new record but it is pretty weird, and i'd say willfully incoherent. the title track certainly isn't the only thing they try that doesn't quite land. it's early still but i suspect this won't be an album of theirs that i put on start to finish too often in the long term.

the idea of playing white funk by injecting slap bass bores me, but, yes, ,I hear enough weirdness on this album to keep me listening. I like the mid tempo and ballads best ("Mardi Gras Beads").