this album is pretty sweet
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 February 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
This is pretty likeable stuff so long as I can convince myself I'm not just indulging nostalgia for the days of my youth.
Or even if I am
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
So bummed out - I waited 5 hours after opening the window to buy tickets to their London gig and by the time I went to pull the trigger it was sold out.
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
digging it but the songs/tones/guitars sound so samey
― you are my capitalism (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
idk if i like the tuneless singing
― you are my capitalism (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
they sound v much like a NYC pavement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNvk1g53mw4
― Plasmon, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
box elder is not a cover
You're right, sorry. I think it was mis-reported as a Wedding Present cover in some early reviews and the idea got stuck in my head. Also, since the lyrics were a bit more straightforward than other songs from the period, it was believable to me that it was the work of a different songwriter.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
wedding present chose some great songs to cover
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
i dont hear too much pavement in this, but i did notice in Careers in Combat the lyric "there are no more art museums to guard", a job that SM and West had at the Whitney
― mizzell, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
liking this l.p a lot. don't hear a great deal of pavement, gbv or strokes(!?) but getting a big Eddy Current Supression Ring vibe from it - especially 'stoned and starving'.
― A12 (d90), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
strokes(!?)
yes okay i get it already, it was one part of one song, jeezalou
― rave revue (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
don't really think the strokes is that far off, more west coast, sunnier, less grey, skuzzier wonkier, v modern lovers but it's not really cool, it doesn't have that swagger, if jonathan richman was played by napoloeon dynamite. there's a bit of the geek energy of pavement but it's a bit too restrained and calculated to hit those highs, can't really imagine myself falling in love with this, but it's a lot of fun, i guess
also i feel like there have been diy bands doing this exact same thing forever, but i can't for the life of me think of any examples
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
liking that song youtubed upthread - what I'm hearing for now is, quite obviously, Wire
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
Might be slightly late to this party, but this band... Where else in the world can I find a new band who satiate my love of Pavement, early Talking Heads, Modern Lovers etc? If they sound like a bunch of old bands, I simply do not care.
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
They're a bit like Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats in that really they're a new band who sound like an amalgamation of a lot of old bands but somehow don't sound totally derivative of these because they're actually fucking great at writing and playing songs rather than being simply great at genre exercises.
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
have listened to first minute of first song, sounds good! surprised to hear they're from brooklyn -- oh, looking it up, i see they're really from texas which makes more sense
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
"borrowed time" kind of makes me think of art brut! so far this seems VERY DISTANT from pavement to me but songs denoted "pavementy" above haven't come up yet.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
'N. Dakota' feels like a sequel to Motion Suggests Itself imo
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
I think the Pavement comparisons are largely (but not wholly derived) from the album artwork. I hear a passing resemblance to Black Lips too I think.
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone seeing them in London this week?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
OK, "Yonder Is Closer to the Heart" does kind of start out like it's going to be a cover of "Yr Killin Me" and for that matter non-standard orthography of "Yr No Stoner" also reminiscent of, well, "Yr Killin Me?"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I would say -- there are a lot of moments where the guitar tone reminds me of Pavement but the drums NEVER remind me of Pavement so as a whole this doesn't sound much like Pavement.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone seeing them in London this week?― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, March 18, 2013 3:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, March 18, 2013 3:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yup, going on thursday. Love this album - simple pleasure, spent 5 mins fretting about whether I was lazily indulging cognates of the sound of my youth but hahahahahaha dgaf this is fucking great.
― woof, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nyctaper.com/2013/03/parquet-courts-march-7-2013-bowery-ballroom-flacmp3streaming/
― dmr, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
I enjoyed the Sebright arms gig, mostly. They sound great, but vocals coming up a bit short - there's that kind of scruffy charismatic (for indie readings of charismatic) delivery that's there on the record, but absent on stage.
Crowd was arms-crossed and sluggish, I thought, which dragged things down. A London thing maybe - large numbers there for the event, not up on the songs – but maybe to do with attracting slightly older audience.
― woof, Friday, 22 March 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
I have had "Borrowed Thyme" stuck in my head since Monday afternoon, definitely need to give this a full listen ( I play tracks on my radio show cuz it is in rotation).
― the world's most impertinent web designer (sleeve), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
they are SO good
― the late great, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
Interviewed them last week. Was a little odd as we were being filmed by Vice and photographed by NME while I tried to interview them for another publication. Will post the results in here when it's online.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
I spent about 5 hours today packing Parquet Courts records! Their label = best dude.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Thursday, 28 March 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
Here's the interview I mentioned last month...I think it's a pretty good feature:
http://crackmagazine.net/music/parquet-courts/
Still digging the record too.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 26 April 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
This has definitely been growing on me as well - probably my favorite of the year so far. I'm not sure if I can tell the singers apart with 100% accuracy though I think the prefer the guy who doesn't sing in the high-pitched voice.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
saw these guys again, this time supporting the breeders. odd set, opening with a new song then tearing through some favourites before bringing things back down with a long slow cover (didn't recognize it) and then playing 3 new songs out of 5 to close. BUT new stuff sounded great and we accosted one of the dudes after the show and he said they have just recorded a bunch of the new material, which is exciting. couple songs sounded like wire to me, i dunno.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 10 May 2013 11:47 (ten years ago) link
coming in late. this fucking rules. pavement refs make sense to me cuz "master of my craft" has a definite pavement by way of modern lovers/early slashrecs vibe. not derivative, but suggestive of. they
dug a few fergus & geronimo songs early on (esp "blind muslim girl", the single version of "powerful loving" and "never satisfied"). this is much better though.
also: yummy fur! heard of but not heard. "deathclub" (linked way upthread) is astounding.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Friday, 10 May 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link
they
i can't tell how much i like this band vs. how much i just miss bands that sound like this...
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:30 PM (3 months ago)
^^^ yeah, i was wondering earlier today how much of my enjoyment comes from just missing bands like this so much.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:43 PM (3 months ago)
this weirds me out a little, cuz there's no shortage of similar bands out there. first that springs to mind are/were the soft pack (who started out as muslims, a much better name). also whatever brains outta NC. not the same, but occupying an adjacent ballpark.
muslims:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMF5A2oMDeE
whatever brains:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mzymn_4B5o
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Friday, 10 May 2013 12:32 (ten years ago) link
i like both those bands too, whatever brains more than the soft pack
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
I'll have to check out Whatever Brains. I liked the last Soft Pack record. But I don't think they really have the same vibe as Parquet Courts.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
yeah soft pack are more like classic garage rock, whatever brains are more noise-punk weirdos, neither is quite as 90s-nostalgia-bait as parquet courts in my mind
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
i like the soft pack ok but parquet courts is way more interesting than the soft pack
― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
speedy ortiz are super 90s nostalgia bait in a different style from parquet courts
― mizzell, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
actually maybe not that different
― mizzell, Friday, 10 May 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
hope y'all like my piece :)))))0
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 10 May 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
heh someone was playing this in a record shop i went into this evening, and i thought it was a feelies alb i somehow didn't know, until i asked and was enlightened
they need anton fier, tho
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 10 May 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
New EP is good. A little more muscular.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 27 September 2013 02:00 (ten years ago) link
Is that "Tally All The Things You Broke"? Seems like I heard this all before.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
just bought it! i don't care if it's samey; i could listen to this sound forever.
― licorice om source (get bent), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link
"You've Got Me Wonderin Now" and "The More It Works" are both great.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
On Jimmy Fallon tv show tonight
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 January 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
any idea what they'll be playing? stoned and starving i guess...
― arel, Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
borrowed time ftw.
I can't tell if the long track on the new EP is awesome or garbage. Maybe it's awesome garbage.
― intimately bellowing (staggerlee), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link