New Yorker PARQUET COURTS is a punk band. Hard to say anything else. OK, compared to Total Punk Records style punk bands they rather play pop music. Their influnces come from Velvet Underground, Ramones and Talking Heads, but I also hear The Fall and even Country Teasers in their music. I remember their first album was a big revelation for me. There the sound was more punk than on the next ones. Fortunately, unlike many others they don’t write the same record year by year. And now with the new album WIDE AWAKE we arrived to New Orelans:

NY punk band PARQUET COURTS with Texan rapper BUN B (ex-UGK), who one time planned a book „Hip Hop Survival Guide” with journalist and illustrator Shea Serrano, but finally they rather made a rap coloring book. So maybe Bun B has been drawn by his mate:

Captive Of The Sun ft. BUN B out now on limited edition 12” via Rough Trade.

The original track is on PARQUET COURTS’ latest album Human Performance.

In the lyrics there is a phrase: misophonia. It means literally „hatred of sound.” It is a condition in which negative emotions, thoughts, and physical reactions are triggered by specific sounds. One study found that around 80% of the sounds were related to the mouth as eating, chewving, yawning and etc.

Singer Andy Savage said

As I see it, humanity is something that’s partly performed and party instinctual. Like puppets, we sometimes are controlled by parts of ourselves that we never really become acquainted with, but are always there. This song is me confronting that shadow

BRAND NEW VIDEO by PARQUET COURTS. Directed by Phil Collins

ALBUM HUMAN PERFORMANCE OUT ON ROUGH TRADE

LISTEN TO 2nd ALBUM ON BANDCAMP

TOUR AUG IN US / OCT IN EUROPE

Rock? Yes. Indie? Absolutely. Punk? Of course. Parquet Courts is a punk band, but an Exploited fan spits on it. The music of Content Nausea album is a mix of Velvet Underground and Fall under pseudonym of Parkay Quarts. It’s a Parquet Courts’ side project.

on What’s Your Rupture Records? (US). In Europe it’s available on Rough Trade (UK)

Parkay Quarts Euro Tour in Nov

Among the best new punk bands:

Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animals

taken from the album on the same name on What’s Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), Rough Trade (UK/EU) in June. Order here      Euro Tour June-July

Parquet Courts Soundcloud

PARQUET COURTS

“’90s slacker heroes”
“punk vigor and slacker looseness”
“these boys are old-school slackers”
“typical laid-back NY-slacker manner”

Sunbathing Animal

from the new album „Sunbathing Animal” on What’s Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), Rough Trade (UK/EU) in June. Order here      Euro Tour June-July     Parquet Courts Soundcloud