Can we talk about how awesome Parquet Courts are?

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!