#a. savage of parquet courts

[mxdwn]

A. Savage of Parquet Courts Announce New Solo Album “Several Songs About Fire” For October 2023 Release

#a. savage of parquet courts #a savage #parquet courts

[beginningspod]

It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to musician and painter Andrew Savage. Originally from Denton, TX, Andrew began playing music seriously when he formed the band Teenage Cool Kids in college in 2006. By the time the group officially disbanded in 2011, Andrew had already been writing music in a new band, Parquet Courts, which he started with his college friend Austin Brown. Since that time, they've released seven albums on labels like What's Your Rupture? and Rough Trade, and Andrew was even nominated for a Grammy for Human Performance's artwork. As a solo artist, Andrew has released two albums, 2017's Thawing Dawn, on his own label Dull Tools and his latest, Several Songs About Fire, which was just released on Rough Trade last week!

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#beginnings #andrew savage #a. savage #parquet courts #dull tools #indie rock #rough trade

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // A. Savage - Thanksgiving Prayer

#new music #music #track of the day #recommended #a. savage #parquet courts #thanksgiving prayer #rough trade records #Youtube

[nofatclips]

Plant Life by Parquet Courts, live on KEXP

#music #live #live music #live session #kexp #parquet courts #andrew savage #austin brown #sean yeaton #max savage #doug marvin #kevin suggs #video #matt ogaz #jim beckmann #carlos cruz #alaia d'alessandro #scott holpainen

[freebird2]

illustrations of the members of Parquet Courts from the lyric book for Wide Awake! (2018), art by A. Savage.

#parquet courts #parkay quarts #andrew savage #'my name is sean yeaton and i play bass on this record' is my fav #thanks sean

[senorboombastic]

Live Review: A. Savage at YES in Manchester 08 February 2024

Words: Andy Hughes On Thursday evening, with a bitter, ice-cold wind cutting through every layer, I’d never wanted to get off the streets and into the Pink Room at YES more. Amazingly – given our penchant for live outings throughout the 12 months that make up any year – the A. Savage show in Manchester would end up being my first of 2024. Rather fittingly though, half of the live players for…

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#08 February 2024 #A. Savage #Andrew Savage #Birthday cake for breakfast #Black Holes the Stars and You #Dylan Hadley #Live Review #Manchester #Modern Nature #Parquet Courts #Several Songs About Fire #Thanksgiving Prayer #Thawing Dawn #YES Manchester

[bandcampsnoop]

11/30/23.

EDIT: For some reason, the song won't play. So here is an earlier album from Savage Mansion you can listen to:

Savage Mansion are a Glasgow, Scotland band that serve as the vehicle for the songs of Craig Angus (great Scottish name). "Present Tense" is the first song I heard and it immediately made me think of Savak or Raj Sablok (Raj and the 100's is still one of my favorite unknown LPs).

Other parts of this album recall the work of Parquet Courts or Chris Brokaw. In other words this is indie rock with an edge while retaining pop sensibilities.

It looks like "The Shakes" is being released by Isle of Eigg label Lost Map Records.

#Savage Mansion #Craig Angus #Glasgow #Scotland #Lost Map Records #Isle of Eigg #Savak #Raj Sablok #Raj and the 100's #Parquet Courts #Chris Brokaw #Bandcamp

[robmoro]

RobMoro TV | A. Savage - 'Elvis In The Army'

A. Savage, the talented musician and member of Parquet Courts, has exciting news for fans with details of his second solo album, “Several Songs About Fire”. He has also shared the album’s lead single and accompanying music video, ‘Elvis in the Army’. The album was produced by the John Parish in Bristol and boasts contributions from musical bigwigs such as Jack Cooper (Modern Nature, Ultimate…

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#A Savage #alternative music blog #artist #band #Independent music #indie music #Indie-pop #music #Music Blog #music video #New Music #new music blog #Parquet Courts #pop music #robmoro #RobMoro TV #rock #Rough Trade

[human-performance]

New solo release from A. Savage — "Thanksgiving Prayer". Bandcamp link for the more ethical among us: https://asavage.bandcamp.com/track/thanksgiving-prayer

#andrew savage #a. savage #thawing dawn #parquet courts #thanksgiving prayer #Spotify

[caardamoom]

“There’s a voice from clear across the lake

With an accent that you can't mistake

But this song, it don't take place in Texas

It's a landlocked type of state”

- Andrew Savage

Outside of Pavement’s entire career, I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard a better example of “slacker rock” than Teenage Cool Kids’ Denton After Sunset. This track specifically has been stuck in my head for like 8 months now so I’m gonna talk about it.

Andrew Savage (now of Parquet Courts) speak-sings his way through the song lethargically, like he’s bullshitting an essay, tying together a bunch of absurd one-liners, free associating his way into enlightenment.

Maybe I just listen to The Velvet Underground too much, but to me the guitars here remind me of some of their songs. Gentle, swift, repetitions, two or three chords maximum, all building to an explosive ending. The bass line really steals the show though, it’s so fucking good.

This record is so good it makes me want to go to Denton, Texas.

#parquet courts #andrew savage #teenage cool kids #indie rock #slacker rock #pavement #the velvet underground #denton #garage rock #Spotify

[theinsanefantasy]

#the beach boys #wild honey #drake x 21 savage #her loss #kate bush #the dreaming #Robyn body talk #stevie wonder #benny the butcher #the smile #d block europe #parquet courts #topsters

[longlistshort]

Cate Le Bon- Moderation

This song is from Cate Le Bon’s latest album Pompeii.

She is playing in Los Angeles on Wednesday, 8/28/22, at The Regent Theater with special guest A. Savage from Parquet Courts.

#cate le bon #song of the day #music #playlist #a. savage #parquet courts #los angeles music shows #music shows #los angeles

[sararubin]

listening

I used to do playlists on my patreon, now I'm just going to make a list on here of what I'm listening to if anyone is interested

• nation of language (can't stop, won't stop, every album is a banger. 'weak in your light' is a good entryway song for the afraid) • voxtrot (new single, 'another fire' WOOF. this is story inspiring music) • yard act (i don't like their first album but these last 2 singles they released have set fire to my blood) • new idles song 'dancer' (features LCD, has a creepy video. check and check!!!! 'we're out at the club but the club is in hell' sort of situation) • a. savage (i'm an early 30s off-brand sort of woman ((something went wrong in the factory!!!! oops, all berries!!!)) with a passion for art, they made this fellow for ladies like me to fawn over. i am a mild parquet courts fan so surprised to find i love his new album quite a bit, especially 'david's dead') • future islands (my big future islands phase has passed. at one point they were my alarm in the morning, my moon in the sky, my tea before bed. then i moved on to other beep boops. the new singles have me excited, empowered and electrified ((with a sensible dash of melancholy, because it's a breakup album, sorry to that king for losing his love))

#music #sorry for this MALE heavy list #i do listen to lots of ladies #this is just what im vibing right now

[scratchedjewelcase]

Wild, Wild, Wild Horses by A. Savage. I really like this solo project (off of Parquet Courts) and I'm particularly obsessed with this song right now. Ask me how I've twisted the lyrics into a gay t4t interpretation, I dare you

#andrew savage #thawing dawn #Spotify

[thesearenotphotographs]

Ty Segall and Sharpie Smile at Webster Hall

On Monday, April 29, 2024, Ty Segall headlined Webster Hall in support of his newest album, Three Bells. He was joined by San Francisco’s Sharpie Smile, for an opening set who brought out a special guest for a country cover (Parquet Court’s Andrew Savage, who declared “real ones show up early”), and Jeff Tobias for another song.

I captured the show for a review by A. Stein that’s now available on The Bowery Presents’ House List here. Images of Sharpie Smile can be found in the gallery on my website here.

#Ty Segall #Sharpie Smile #Webster Hall #Andrew Savage #Mikal Cronin #Evan Burrows #Emmett Kelly #Ben Boye #Dylan Hadley #Cole Berliner #Jeff Tobias #Sophie Shely #Rayla Delanova

[rainydawgradioblog]

A. Savage showed me I can write a decent song (I’m delusional)

My first major purchase after arriving in Copenhagen last summer was a ticket to see Andrew Savage’s European tour in February. The legendary Parquet Courts co-frontman played Ideal Bar in Vesterbro with his band Midnight Stew to a crowd of me and 99 tall mustachioed film bro-looking Danish lads in their 20s and 30s. I fit right in wearing my artsy new A. Savage “Riding Cobbles” t-shirt, as Andrew convinced me with his lovely little tunes to write a song of my own.

Andrew’s visual aesthetic had me straight to Ticketmaster before his latest album Several Songs About Fire even dropped. Everything he rolled out in promo shoots, cover art, and concert merch was drenched in David Hockney meets “The Adventures of Tintin” meets the doodles on the back of my middle school binder. 

Paired perfectly with the cartoony visuals, the music of Sevel Songs About Fire boils down melodies to a uniquely simple formula. Nothing is overcomplicated, leaving plenty of room to feel every chord change and focus on his glorious rusty voice, which is down-to-earth but also smooth enough to make me think he could burn the house down singing Frank Sinatra hits if he wanted. Andrew’s style makes great songwriting feel like something that anyone with a shitty guitar can do, and that’s not meant to sound shady. 

Another major draw to Andrew’s music is his lighthearted pessimistic humor that he throws all over his lyrics. It’s the same humor that my dad’s college buddies who never had kids embody. You can tell he’s got a weird whimsical take on the world in the way he phrases his feelings. “My weekly dinner of popcorn and Coke / Every Friday, like communion that I took as a joke” in the intro “Hurtin’ or Healed” is objectively a bit bleak but you can’t help but smirk and hope you're as witty as him at age almost 40.

I can thank Andrew and his band Parquet Courts for my appreciation of art punk and a lot of the politically charged folk rock I obsess over today like early Courtney Barnett and Fontaines DC. The band’s pop art aesthetic and funky yet punky take on indie rock recontextualized a lot of harsh punk aesthetics into something that made a lot more sense to me when I was first getting into music. Album’s like Wide Awake and Human Performance were palatable but gritty enough to slap some taste into my teenage brain.

Where Andrew’s solo work deviates from Parquet Courts is his more laid back take on songwriting, packed full of energy without doing the most. He’s got a handful of chords and progressions that are standard but still sound so uniquely his own. Hearing a song like “Le Ballon” or his latest single “Black Holes, the Stars and You” put Andrew’s skill at building tension and emotion with just a few particular chords and subtle melodies on full display.

Most of the emotion conveyed on Sevel Songs About Fire is rooted in finding comfort in simple pleasures and observations in a life far from a sense of home. Living all the way in Denmark, I listen to “Riding Cobbles” bumping down the cobbled Copenhagen streets, “My New Green Coat” while wrapped in my new thrifted Bob Dylan jacket, and “Mountain Time” watching the geese fly in Vs like they do in the Cascades back home. 

To me, the album is music to ramble to– it’s the music you listen to with your thumb out on the side of the road with a knapsack tied to a stick over your shoulder. I listened to the new album for the first time while waiting for trains between Berlin and Copenhagen, anticipating a long bus ride to Stockholm the next day. Being on exchange often felt chaotic, trying to experience as many new things as I could without a lot of regard to my ability to settle down, and Sevel Songs About Fire is exactly that. Andrew mentioned during his set that he loves touring because he has the unique ability of finding a sense of home in a lot of places, something I wish I was better at.

After Andrew’s show, I picked up my very own $35 guitar from the charity shop down the street and started thinking about tiny observations or inanimate objects that made me feel any kind of something. However insignificant these things seemed, they were unique to me which is exactly why Andrew’s music is so important. Several Songs About Fire was never about reinventing the wheel but more about a unique perspective and personality using the bread and butter of what makes a great song. 

I beg of you please listen to Several Songs About Fire and after you’ve realized it’s your favorite album ever I’d give his debut album Thawing Dawn a listen. For more political indie rock stuff I’d listen to Parquet Court’s Wide Awake and if you like it even punkier, try Light Up Gold. 

You’re welcome!

Mead Gill