- Light Up Gold · 2012
- Wide Awake! · 2018
- Sympathy for Life · 2021
- Wide Awake! · 2018
- Sunbathing Animal · 2014
- Content Nausea · 2014
- Light Up Gold · 2012
- Wide Awake! · 2018
- Human Performance · 2016
- Sunbathing Animal · 2014
- Content Nausea · 2014
- Tally All the Things You Broke - EP · 2013
- Wide Awake! · 2018
Essential Albums
- Seven albums in, Parquet Courts deliver their most nuanced, diverse LP so far. While their raw, post-punk side is amply present on tracks like "Extinction", with its Fall-evoking riffs, that's just one among many arrows in the Brooklyn band's quiver. Between the children's choir on "Death Will Bring Change", the trippy, dub-inflected touches on "Back to Earth", the G-funk synth lines on "Violence" and the polyrhythmic, disco-besotted grooves of the title track, Parquet Courts deliver on more fronts than ever before.
- Brooklyn art-rockers Parquet Courts have sometimes obscured their warmth under a cover of discord, challenging song structures and sardonic detachment. Their fifth album simplifies and purifies their sound to thrilling effect though. Whether they’re dovetailing or duelling, Andrew Savage and Austin Brown’s punchy riffs sublimate into the band’s poppiest hooks yet. There’s emotional engagement too, with Savage opening up his heartache and isolation on the bittersweet “Human Performance” and “Berlin Got Blurry”’s collision of thrumming post-punk and surf guitar licks.
Albums
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
Artist Playlists
- Cerebral alt-rockers combine small-town charm with big-city cool.
Singles & EPs
More To Hear
- The band talks 'Sympathy for Life.'
- The band joins Matt to talk "Black Widow Spider."
- Matt plays tracks from the Untitled playlist on Apple Music.
- The enigmatic star talks "Girlfriend".
- A mix of punk, proto-punk, and rock inspired by and from Berlin.
About Parquet Courts
Art-punk rebels Parquet Courts promise only one constant: unpredictability. The Brooklyn-via-Texas quartet has kept indie fans on their toes since dropping 2012’s scrappy, sharp-witted, post-punk-driven album Light Up Gold, a proper follow-up to their cassette-only 2011 debut, American Specialties. Led by the powerhouse songwriting duo of Andrew Savage and Austin Brown, and rounded out by bassist Sean Yeaton and drummer Max Savage, the band has never stuck to a script. “We’ve created our own language and universe throughout our music,” Austin Brown told Apple Music—and they’ve done so at a prolific pace. In their first decade, Parquet Courts released eight albums and two EPs, all notably raw and ramshackle, but defiantly different from one another. They’ve effortlessly shapeshifted into wily experimentalists—flexing their melodic sensibilities on 2016’s avant-pop stunner Human Performance, opening their door to producer Daniele Luppi for 2017’s jazz-touched, Karen O-featuring Milano and Danger Mouse for 2018’s dance-punk groover Wide Awake!, before taking inspiration from NYC’s dance underground for 2021’s funk-fueled celebration Sympathy for Life.
- ORIGIN
- Brooklyn, NY, United States
- FORMED
- 2010
- GENRE
- Alternative