Can we talk about how awesome Parquet Courts are?

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'.

strokes(!?)

yes okay i get it already, it was one part of one song, jeezalou

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

liking that song youtubed upthread - what I'm hearing for now is, quite obviously, Wire

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.

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.

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

"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.

'N. Dakota' feels like a sequel to Motion Suggests Itself imo

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.

Anyone seeing them in London this week?

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?"

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.

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

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.

http://www.nyctaper.com/2013/03/parquet-courts-march-7-2013-bowery-ballroom-flacmp3streaming/

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.

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).

they are SO good

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.

I spent about 5 hours today packing Parquet Courts records! Their label = best dude.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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

i like both those bands too, whatever brains more than the soft pack

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.

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

i like the soft pack ok but parquet courts is way more interesting than the soft pack

speedy ortiz are super 90s nostalgia bait in a different style from parquet courts

actually maybe not that different

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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

New EP is good. A little more muscular.

Is that "Tally All The Things You Broke"? Seems like I heard this all before.

just bought it! i don't care if it's samey; i could listen to this sound forever.

"You've Got Me Wonderin Now" and "The More It Works" are both great.

On Jimmy Fallon tv show tonight

any idea what they'll be playing? stoned and starving i guess...

borrowed time ftw.

I can't tell if the long track on the new EP is awesome or garbage. Maybe it's awesome garbage.

that's the one that sounds kinda like beck? it's okay. i decided i like the first two tracks a lot but i can take or leave the rest.

playing here next weekend with destruction unit - weird match-up but i'm stoked

they were so good last time i saw them live

both bands were good-to-meh

New EP is good. A little more muscular.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, September 26, 2013 7:00 PM

they were much louder and noisier at this show. more shouting, more punk. there was even a pit at this show. that might have been down to the venue.

started with something slow, that i think was new. i thought it was painfully bad.

i have to admit i liked all of the old songs better than all of the new songs. they did a kind of motorik stretching-out of the ends of some of the old songs which was cool. i think it would be cool if they explored that direction a bit more.

fuck, i love all thse records:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G78dxojn8I

wow never seen that Fall video before! did not know they worked with Clark that early.

I just heard about em, so the bloom should be coming off shortly