Parquet Courts -Wide Awake -ROUGH TRADE / BEGGARS GROUP / INDIGO LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Total Football"
02. "Violence"
03. "Before The Water Gets Too High"
04. "Mardi Gras Beads"
05. "Almost Had To Start A Fight/In And Out Of Patience"
06. "Freebird 2"
07. "Normalisation"
08. "Back To Earth"
09. "Wide Awake!"
10. "NYC Observation"
11. "Extinction"
12. "Death Will Bring Change"
13. "Tenderness"

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Parquets Courts' fifth album 'Wide Awake!' - produced by Danger Mouse - is a groundbreaking work, an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. The songs, written by Andrew Savage and Austin Brown but elevated to even greater heights by the dynamic rhythmic propulsion of Max Savage (drums) and Sean Yeaton (bass), are filled with their traditional punk rock passion, as well as a lyrical tenderness. The record reflects a burgeoning confidence in the band's exploration of new ideas in a hi-fi context. Listen to single 'Wide Awake' [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXS8Jpkiac). -

Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release. Wide Awake! Is New York's Parquet Courts' fifth record since their forma-tion eight years ago. It's also their most groundbreaking. It's an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitar-ianism. Love is at it's center. There's also a freshness here, a breaking of new territory that's testament to the group's restless spirit. In part, this may be attributed to the fact that it's produced by Brian Bur-ton, better known as Danger Mouse, but it's also simply a triumph of their songwriter's art. The songs, written by Austin Brown and Andrew Savage, are filled with their traditional punk rock passion, as well as a lyrical ten-derness, 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 combi-nation of groove, joy, and indignation, "expressing anger constructively but without trying to accommodate anyone."

Includes download code and fold out poster insert. Additional Vocals on "Death Will Bring Change" by Eleanor Adams, Minelle Jeddy, Lucie Bismuth Berger, Rita Bochi, Julian Cohen, Mia Nikov, Kofi Dufu, Ava DiFelice, Caden Castro-Kudler and Ariane Bourdain.

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05156951

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