Can we talk about how awesome Parquet Courts are?

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

“The music we play, it’s kind of like a quaint relic,” Mr. Brown said. “I feel a responsibility to show them, look what we’re doing. I’m hammered drunk right now and having a blast, and I’m playing a guitar, and there are no laptops onstage. It makes me feel old.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/arts/music/parquet-courts-proudly-hews-to-tradition.html

Driving over to Memphis to see them tomorrow night.

Just gonna drop this here re: Stoned & Starving because it's the very first thing that came to my mind upon hearing and I haven't seen it referenced yet either in interviews or on the mixtapes of likes/influences the band has made avail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma0gZAgIkfw

nice track

Fave part of the new album is the guitar solo on "Ducking & Dodging."

They really like to stay on one chord for a long time.

that makes me even more excited for this release

"Raw Milk" chorus is not just a Sonic Youth homage but a Dirty-era Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth homage.

i had a similar thought (tho less specific than your thought)

It's like exactly halfway between "Theresa's Sound World" and "Sugar Kane."

I do like this band btw, if my tone was unclear.

"instant disassembly" reminds me of stoner-cowboy '70s dylan. it's a good look.

here's what i say about "duckin and dodgin" in my review, which will be up this week:

“Duckin and Dodgin,” which appears late in the album, is a dark horse: it’s the one people may forget about since it’s immediately after “Instant Disassembly.” The structure of the spoken-word meter has shades of Sonic Youth’s beatnik-cum-tribal “Making the Nature Scene” but has more spiritual connectivity with John Doe’s barkier moments with X. Parquet Courts’ biggest musical signifier, as diverse as the sounds can be, is first-generation punk, and that’s what “Duckin and Dodgin” gives us — the speed and lean build of those early UK singles, triple-filtered through someone’s memories of Dylan busting through pop culture and language conventions in the haze of an amphetamine binge.

i agree with pitchfork.
the new one is so much better than the previous which i didn't care about really.

fuuuuuck this album is so good. gonna be listening to this all summer

yeah i'm digging this

So far I think I like "Light Up Gold" more, it was a little songier and more of a pleasant surprise, but the new one could grow on me. I really like the lyrics.

new one sounds pretty good but the idea that it's much better than the first is o_O

Yeah, I dunno, I'm not feeling the new one as much.

"ducking & dodging" is what i assume all hold steady songs sound like.

Ha ha NOPE

only 1+ listens but i'm impressed at how different it is from the first album. definitely a gear i wasn't sure they had.

Man that Chrisma song andrew m. posted is absolutely killer - thanks for that! Got it on repeat!

Ok this new one is pretty boring. Couple of winners, but not enough hooks!

yuppp

I stan hard for both the Modern Lovers and Pavement -- the most obvious reference points here imo -- and this has all their signifiers but none of their charm.

On first listen, I don't like this as much as the previous album or EP. Will give it a chance though.

fuuuuuck this album is so good. gonna be listening to this all summer

― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:17 AM (4 weeks ago)

http://thequietus.com/articles/15777-parquet-courts-sunbathing-animal-review

This is my fave album of the year. I certainly don't think it's a bad facsimile of Pavement. I mean I hear a lot of bands in their sound and it doesn't detract from my enjoyment. You seem to be hung up on originality all the time which probably isn't the best attitude when reviewing a rock album in the '10s. There's some great lyrics on this record as well but you make no mention of that.

This record reminds me a lot more of Swell Maps than Pavement. "Instant Disassembly" is an instant classic but I kinda miss the tunefulness of the first LP and EP a lot of the time. It feels like a record that was written on tour - don't know if it was. It's got that road-weary vibe and the emphasis on stuff that would translate well on stage. Feel like they were aiming a lot more for one specific mode that on previous releases.

I think the tunes are stronger on this one tbh.

Huh- apparently it was written on tour:

Vocalist and guitarist Austin Brown stated, "We had to kind of squeeze recording in between long runs of touring; whenever we had a couple of weeks off, we’d try to arrange a few days in the studio."... Many of the album's lyrics were written whilst on tour in support of Light Up Gold.

I swear I hadn't read that before posting.

Sorry meant to post the link too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbathing_Animal

this was my review -- without knowing for sure that it was written on tour, that was my guess.

http://www.redefinemag.com/2014/parquet-courts-sunbathing-animal-album-review-whats-rupture/

I like all the songs on the Sunbathing Animal when they come up individually on shuffle - it's just hearing them all at once that gets a bit too samey for me. But then again, I have the same issue with canonical bands like The Fall, so maybe it's me.

this doesn't do much for me.

yup

still loving this, tho taking it in measured doses so as to extend shelf life. agree that it's hard to avoid framing PC w/o ref to pavement, similarities are unavoidable, but maybe it's more about how comfortably the quarts would have slotted into "indie rock" as it was conceived circa 92-?, pavement's shining moment. the sound they're working isn't so completely tied down, owing to the velvets, television, modern lovers, swell maps, feelies, sonic youth even. moderns digging the same hole: eddy current suppression ring, tyvek (also on wyr? no surprise). i suppose it's that pavement are the end of that line, or seem like it from here, something about the early 00s "rock revival" making every too-similar subsequent feel like a cargo cult, heyday gazing.

that's unfair, of course. the appearance of one moment from another isn't definitive, just transitional perspective. but PC do make a rather fastidious point of not adding anything to the corpus that wasn't already present. even the meta stuff & in-joke self-mockery are straight pavement, the overheard strains of "the last classic rock band" dialed in from "fillmore jive". do like the noisier moments on this one, give it some cute, scrappy, fuck-you swagger, again unavoidably nostalgic. and the lyrics are, at least occasionally, excellent, "instant disassembly" being the obvious standout. would like to see them fuck with the formula just a little bit, but they're just getting started, so it seems boorish to complain.

yeah, pavement are just the final point of a postpunk/art rock continuum and the references to them w/r/t parquet courts are definitely overstated, but it'd be a lie to say they're not an influence.

I tried to get a mate into them and he said he likes the music (reminds him of the fall and pavement) but thought the guys vocals were terrible and had no character. i thought it was an odd criticism tbh. i like the guys vocals fwiw - the bug-eyed and breathless vocals on "sunbathing animal" and malkmus-ian slacker drawl on "dear ramona".

There are two vocalists actually, but I can't always tell them apart.