Parquet Courts

Jingle Jangle Junks PARQUET COURTS Drop Second Single From Upcoming LP

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18 August 2021


(photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Band: PARQUET COURTS
Who: Jingle Jangle junks from Dallas, based in New York
Active: since 2010 / 7 studio albums (including new one)

New album: A SYMPTAHY FOR LIFE
Out: 22 October 2021 via Rough Trade

New single: WALKING AT A DOWNTOWN PACE
Second shared piece after groovy 10-minute jam Plant Life

The jingle jangle junks sound again as if they listen every
day to early Talking Heads vibes. Repetitive guitar riffs,
rotating rhythms and a shouting chorus.

Tune in…

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PARQUET COURTS: All Albums

PARQUET COURTS Celebrate 10th Anniversary With Unreleased Track ‘HEY BUG’ And Live Show

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New sonic impulses…

 

11 November 2020

New York via Texas post-punks PARQUET COURTS formed 10 years ago.
In that decade they released six albums, from very good to sublime ones.

To celebrate, the band stream a live show from Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works on
10th December. They also shared a previously unreleased track from the
sessions of their third LP Sunbathing Animal that came out in 2014.

Listen here…


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PARQUET COURTS: Facebook


Parquet Courts in Brussels on 27 Opctober 2013 – the day Lou Reed died, playing the Velvet Underground’s What Goes On as a tribute. Goosebumps moments. (pic by Turn Up The Volume)

‘Wide Awake!’ By PARQUET COURTS – Released 2018

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Old and new albums to make your day…

16 February 2020

Band: Parquet Courts (New York City based)
Album: Wide Awake! – their sixth LP
Released: 18 May 2018
Pitchfork wrote: Parquet Courts enlisted Danger Mouse
to produce an LP of joyfully absurd, danceable rock music.
It is straightforward but alien, simple but endlessly referential.
Full review here. Score: 8/10
The clips: Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience /
Wide Awake / Mardi Gras Beads / Total Football

– ALMOST HAD TO START A FIGHT/ IN AND OUT OF PATIENCE –

– WIDE AWAKE –

– MARDI GRAS BEADS –

– TOTAL FOOTBALL –

Album in full…

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FIVE INFLAMMABLE SUMMER BANGERS – Part 6…

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Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go completely bananas to this summer…

Another storming team of big bangers for another obstreperous week! Let’s rock…

1. ‘Skinny Little Bitch’ by HOLE
(Album: Nobody’s Daughter – 2010)

2. ‘Whirling Eye’ by THE KILLS
(Album: Ash & Ice – 2016)

3. ‘Wide Awake’ by Parquet Courts
(Album: Wide Awake – 2019)

4. ‘Lost Power’ by FRENCH VANILLA
(Album: How I Am Not Myself? – 2018)

5. ‘For Helvede’ by USE KNIFE
(Single 2019)

All Summer Bangers so far
collected here on Spotify…

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See/hear you next week, music junkies…

5 Brand New MUST-HEAR Longplayers Right Here…

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This week’s brand new longplayers that will impress your ears and your speakers…

1/ ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel‘ – COURTNEY BARNETT
Second full record by Aussie singer/songwriter/storyteller – Review NME here

Stream here…

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2/ ‘Wide Awaaaaake!’ by PARQUET COURTS
Arrogant Texans / First-rate garage rockers with 6th LP – Rolling Stone review here

Stream here…

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3/ ‘Konark Und Bonark’ by ELEFANT
Far-out debut album by Belgium’s eccentric noiseniks – More info here

Stream here…

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4/ ‘Islands’ by ASH
Veteran noisemakers back with – Review NME here

Stream here…

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5/ ‘Sparkle Hard’ by STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS
Seventh solo longplayer by ex-Pavement frontman – Rolling Stone review here

Stream here…

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