Can we talk about how awesome Parquet Courts are?

AS has a great vocabulary, just said “tantamount”

painful discussion founded on a misunderstanding of poptimism

That was among the worst Chapo episodes ever imo.

I liked how he immediately threw them off with We kinda thought the Strokes were poseurs, and they had to recalibrate

painful discussion founded on a misunderstanding of poptimism

― flopson, Monday, August 20, 2018 7:31 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the least surprising thing ever

I liked how he immediately threw them off with We kinda thought the Strokes were poseurs, and they had to recalibrate

― President Keyes, Monday, August 20, 2018 9:28 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One of many volleys in a rousing match of boring opinions pong.

Chapo sucks; podcasts are terrible & i wish it was the 90s; I don’t want to be put off this band by a lame interview; this band is great

yeah I got a few minutes into that podcast but it was unlistenable

the band before us just covered Parquet Courts and a dude started skanking, so yes my night is going very well thank you for asking

— noey wrong (@_josephwright_) September 26, 2018

why you gotta be so ruuude

Their new single is atrocious… sounds like 3rd-tier Franz Ferdinand.

Kind of low energy for FF, more Kasabian IMO

Blur

Yeah I'm not feeling the song, but the cover art is amazing as usual

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/611c6367b8f9347b25a1e100/master/w_1600,c_limit/SympathyForLife_cover_web.jpg

Hopefully the rest of the album can make up for it.

This band sadly is becoming less and less my thing as time goes by.

Yeah, Wide Awake was the first single from the last album (shitty song, good album) , so there's hope.

That's my take on it, yes. The track is alright, Joe Strummer fronting The Fall, a bit.

Weird how, in my estimation at least, funky post-punk is pretty easy to make sound cool. Plenty of bands do it. I'm in a band that does it. But they somehow make it seem so corny. Both Wide Awake and this. They have the straight-ahead wiry punk formula down so well. They excel at it. But when they try this type of thing it's somehow so awkward.

They premiered some other track a couple months ago that was pretty exciting I thought. More like Can or something, blurry and low key with lots of delayed-out organ, but I only heard it once a couple months ago I don't remember much about it. I was stoked on the new direction. This new one is yuck.

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

Not feeling his singing with this one at all.

I'm on the fence about the vocal, but I dig the video.

I like this new album and I like Black Widow Spiders. Album vacillates between more traditional rock numbers and downtempo Remain In Light funk

Among other things, Byrne had interesting commentary on modern life... Savage's lyrics at this point are like grumbly tweets by a guy you keep meaning to mute.

Agree that the lyrics aren't up to much, but I kind of dig them turning a little jammy.

"Black Widow Spiders" has quickly grown on me, and the other singles (or the ones with videos) are pretty great too. Will have to pick this up. I love this band and Wide Awake! was my AOTY but for some reason I've been wary about this one rather than looking forward to it.

I don’t love it but very much prefer it to Wide Awake!.

I love Byrne and Talking Heads but most of his lyrics were strung-together phrases that sounded good coming out his mouth, especially on RIL. I really like the lyrics on BWS.

As a fan of pre-Human Performance PQ (though that record has moments), it will surprise no one that I’m a little obsessed with “Homo Sapien”.

Yeah, that was one of the videos - great track. Light Up Gold, Sunbathing Animal, Human Performance and Wide Awake! all made my year-end top ten lists pretty easily. They're kind of like Spoon in the sense that I always liked them, but after releasing four great albums in quick succession, HOW much I liked them really snuck up on me, as if I underrated them and suddenly realized they had been my favorite band of the past decade.

Yeah, I'm enjoying the whole thing, but "Homo Sapien" does make a really nice and well appreciated diversion back to the LUG era. I dig it.

"and space is so passe"

this is lots of fun.

Nice B-side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TP8WoWAmqY

Apparently they played this on Ellen DeGeneres's show in angry fashion, leading some to think they were sending a message to/about DeGeneres.

Should have searched - there's a clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4inigGayAq0

Screengrab looks like Fred Armisen

I revisited the Teenage Cool Kids' Denton After Sunset, and was surprised by how super Pavement-y the first half is (maybe I'm particularly attuned, b/c I have Pave on the brain). The sideways guitars in "Denton After Sunset"; Savage's vocal tone in "Kachina Doll"; the "la-la-la-la" harmonies and "Box Elder" lyric quote in "Landlocked State"; the way "No Fragments Reach" sounds like it was recorded right after listening to "Range Life" a few dozen times... etc.

Then the album shifts gears: "Jealous Convert" sounds exactly like it could be a (top-tier) Love as Laughter song; "Volvo to a Kiss" is sort of generic fuzzed-out NYC/Hoboken indie rock; "Beg to Differ" is sorta Beat Happening-ish(?); and the final track could be, I dunno, a more melodic version of Gaffney-era Sebadoh.

I guess you could say it's a grab bag of styles, done really well – slivers of which pop up in Parquet Courts, but this album really makes explicit how steeped Savage was in the '90s stuff. (I just read on Wikipedia that they had two prior albums? I'd be interested to hear those.)

Haha, wow, the first track on the album before that is like Camper Van Beethoven meets Perfect-era Built to Spill. These guys were too much!