Can we talk about how awesome Parquet Courts are?

Didn't know about that Savage solo album. Will be looking forward to it. Not immediately sold on the teaser track, but the concept is interesting.

Love that single and Wild Wild horses.
Looks like a very interesting solo album.

Can we talk about how good is the new A Savage solo album is?

Sort of like Bill Callahan meets John Cale. Great producrion too..

Thanks for reminding me it's out now. Will give it a listen.

given the constant pavement comparisons it's funny how much the first song on this sounds like range life

that record does indeed sound great

Yes, i'm surprised it doesn't get much publication.

enthusiasm for them peaked with Light Up Gold, I think. I like em decently, they're good for 3-4 great songs per record, I but I find them frustratingly mediocre and, especially in Savage's case, totally lacking in self-awareness & a sense of humor. Still haven't listened to his solo record, will tonight. Encouraged by posts here.

I loved them live. Also I thought Monastic Living was grebt but admittedly I only listened to it once. Loud.

First take on this new one is that there's a thin line between good A. Savage and bad A. Savage, and he doesn't always know where it is, but the good stuff is pretty good.

buried review at p4k today, still have to listen to this https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/a-savage-thawing-dawn/

the linked track in that review is great

AllMusic review of Milano by Daniele Luppi/Parquet Courts

sounds p good to me, they sure have a recognizable style

i love the record with luppi. just 9 songs over half an hour but all of them great.

Great new song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Bka7yNyKA

Wide Awake! - May 18, 2018

01 Total Football
02 Violence
03 Before the Water Gets Too High
04 Mardi Gras Beads
05 Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience
06 Freebird II
07 Normalization
08 Back to Earth
09 Wide Awake
10 NYC Observation
11 Extinction
12 Death Will Bring Change
13 Tenderness

https://pitchfork.com/news/parquet-courts-announce-new-album-produced-by-danger-mouse-share-new-song-listen/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

love the cover too

http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/Parquet%20Courts%20Wide%20Awake%20Art.jpg

feeling optimistic about this one. my favorite PC songs are the rockers. they've had a pretty weak batting average per album but the songs I love but them I really love ("Borrowed Time" and "Everyday It Starts"). an album full of songs like that first single could make their best work yet.

that's a great double single but announce-new-album-produced-by-danger-mouse is one of my least favorite url's to feature the name of an artist I like - his productions are so lifeless and rounded... I guess maybe he's nice to work with

v strong roxy music vibes on "pretty prizes" and i'm v here for it

i saw his wallet
out on the table
grab on the way out
if i am able
he fancies new things
for his collection
but they inspire in time
like his erection

expire, not inspire

haha u right

that's from the daniele luppi/parquet courts btw fyi

Oooh love this. The production sounds like...every other Parquet Courts song.

saw them the other night and dug the addition of electric 12-string on several of the new songs. Also re: Roxy Music vibes A Savage was wearing a jacket with CPL593H on the back. Fun show, Austin chatted to the crowd for a while about The Crown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXS8Jpkiac

new video is really something

Awful song

I think vid makes it seem more awful than it is, harmless Talking Heads parody or whatever, with that dull dull Dangermouse production

but the video is some OK Go shit

maybe it'll get them some new fans

Max Savage looks quite a lot like Nigel from Half Man Half Biscuit

Didn't watch the video, song is great tho imo. great bass playing. i'm just glad they're doing a totally uptempo record, human performance was zzzzzzz for the most part.

That video... These guys feel so uncool all of a sudden. And that's relevant/notable only because A. Savage seemed obsessed w/retaining "cred" in the wake of LUG.... It felt like they were constantly psyching themselves out. And now here they are.

they were always painfully uncool imo, serious tryhards that never succeeded. they're a really awkward band. but they have some great songs.

“LUG” is one of my favorite albums of the decade... it felt almost visionary, like a perfectly realized thing. They’ve had some other songs I’ve really liked, but I’ve accepted the fact that that album was some kind of special deal.

I think they’ve always been pretty inconsistent. I loved LUG but tbh there were always songs I felt like skipping. The hit to miss ratio has its ups and downs but I don’t think they’ve ever made the album that fully realizes the potential of their best songs.

“Pretty Machines: The Very Best of Parquet Courts” (Rhino, 2025)

I think they’ve always been pretty inconsistent. I loved LUG but tbh there were always songs I felt like skipping. The hit to miss ratio has its ups and downs but I don’t think they’ve ever made the album that fully realizes the potential of their best songs.

Donuts is the one song on LUG that’s maaayyybe skippable for me

Side 2 of “LUG” is for the true headz (lol)

Another later song I love is “Pathos Prairie.” Savage is such a gifted songwriter. Some of those Teenage Cool Kids tracks also knock me out. It’s like he has the ability to write & record these perfect indie-rock songs, but is afraid of turning into the Strokes or something, so he “roughs things up” a lot, with varying degrees of success.

agree that it seems they're not going to top LUG anytime soon, but there's been good songs on all their records (side projects included) and they def have an instantly recognizable sound (that, in a way, probably comes down to the songwriting)

After spending a short while with LUG when it was new, I remember thinking that in the future people would be saying it was their best or only good one. Just knew they wouldn't make another album in that style and fair enough really

man I love Human Performance

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