Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! [LP]

Description

Wide Awake! is New Yorks Parquet Courts fifth record since their formation eight years ago. Its also their most groundbreaking. Its an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its center. Theres also a freshness here, a breaking of new territory thats testament to the groups restless spirit. In part, this may be attributed to the fact that its produced by Brian Burton, better known as Danger Mouse, but its also simply a triumph of their songwriters art. The songs, written by Austin Brown and Andrew Savage, are filled with their traditional punk rock passion, as well as a lyrical tenderness, but are elevated to even greater heights by the dynamic rhythmic propulsion of Max Savage (drums) and Sean Yeaton (bass). Ultimately then the message contained in Wide Awake! is complex. In such a hateful era of culture, we stand in opposition to that and to the nihilism used to cope with that with ideas of passion and love, Brown says. For Savage, it comes back to the deceptively complex goal of making people want to dance, powering the body for resistance through a combination of groove, joy, and indignation, expressing anger constructively but without trying to accommodate anyone. The most exhilarating exercise from New Yorks reigning indie-rockers laureate since their legend-making Stoned and Starving as if you didnt already have reason enough to be on high alert for Wide Awake! Stereogum An urgent, fantastic return that sees the band at the very top of their game, and more together than ever DIY Mag

Tracklist:

1. Total Football [Explicit]
2. Violence
3. Before the Water Gets Too High
4. Mardi Gras Beads
5. Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience
6. Freebird II
7. Normalization
8. Back to Earth
9. Wide Awake
10. NYC Observation
11. Extinction
12. Death Will Bring Change
13. Tenderness

UPC: 191402000115
Label: ROUGH TRADE US
Release Date: 5.18.18
Format: Vinyl