First came an ep with rapper bun b in 2017, then a collaboration with italian producer daniele luppi and karen o on the tightly arranged and subtle milano. With wide awake!, parquet courts treats both figurative and literal forward motion as a cathartic act. Back at the beginning of the original lockdown period, last march, i found myself obsessively relistening to this record.
Parquet Courts 'Wide Awake!' Review Texas Monthly
Is a fun, catchy, exciting and interesting record.
Indie rock icons, parquet courts shift gears and deliver a fresh and vital album.
Their reflection results in a unique spin on social critique. “wide awake” is the 2018 album from new york punk rock group parquet courts, and their latest offering until the release of this year’s “sympathy for life”, on october 22nd. Put down the pitchforks, friends. Parquet courts join forces with producer brian burton, aka danger mouse and come dangerously close to recording their best album.
This album is a separation of their energetic form and woke message.
Parquet courts collaborate with danger mouse(?!) rough trade, 2018 purchase: With their seventh studio album, parquet courts have taken a more exploratory approach for the release, and i think it paid off. Is one of the best albums of this year. Is parquet courts’ fifth album (or seventh, if you include the trimmings of parkay quarts and last year’s daniele luppi collaboration) in as many years, with scarily prolific andrew savage releasing his first solo album late last year as well.
In that sense, wide awake!
Is so impeccably executed makes it an easy album to recommend. Better performed and written than any parquet courts albu. Might be too scattershot to appeal to a much wider audience, but it does cement parquet courts’ position as one of us. Might be too scattershot to appeal to a much wider audience, but it does cement parquet courts’ position as one of us indie’s more intriguing outliers.
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D escribed by austin brown as a response to the nihilism born out of our current “hateful era of culture,” parquet courts’s sixth album, wide awake!, tackles such heavy subject matter as climate change. After years refining their americana punk sound into something laser sharp and often brilliant, parquet courts started messing with the formula. May 17, 2018 may 17, 2018 tom alexander andrew savage, austin brown, danger mouse, parquet courts, sean yeaton, wide awake. It’s their angriest work, and yet it’s their most polished.
Parquet courts, like the clash before them, eschew genre purity to play with arrangements that would thrive both on dance floors and in mosh pits.
More reviews for parquet courts. Filled with raw energy and uncompromising political message, parquet courts wide awake! On 'wide awake!,' parquet courts infuse their taut rock songs with rollicking funk, casting their eyes on american strife without losing their sense of humor. And yet, the band show no signs of slowing down or diminishing returns yet, with their “main timeline”.
Rough trade records [2018] who:
Every song has a strong pulse, and the band’s sound—along with savage’s unique vocals—just works so well. All this publication's reviews read full review
