#parkay quarts

[rastronomicals]

1:36 AM EST December 24, 2023:

Parquet Courts - "Insufferable" From the album Content Nausea (November 11, 2014)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Or Parkay Quarts.

Whatever makes them happy.

#Parquet Courts #Content Nausea #Insufferable #Parkay Quarts

[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

[bandcampsnoop]

6/19/21.

One song flexi-discs are not usually my thing.  I did buy Parkay Quarts “Hey Bug” last year, and before that Mick Trouble’s “Glad I’m Not Me”, but generally speaking I just need more than one song.

Leisure World Tapes (Phoenix, Arizona) seem to be specializing in the flexi-disc/one song format as several of their label releases are in this format.

The label also appears to the psych/rock sound as this release from Lars Finberg’s The Intelligence shows.  Their newest release from Lenguas Largas (sounds like a cross between Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees) also fits this description as does Beige Banquet. 

I’m guessing that this format lets Leisure World keep up their once-a-month release schedule.

#The Intelligence #Lars Finberg #Leisure World Tapes #Phoenix #Arizona #Parkay Quarts #Mick Trouble #Lenguas Largas #Beige Banquet #Ty Segall #Thee Oh Sees

[sonicdeath]

A. Savage: The Past, Too, Is An Intruder, 2017, 48″ × 36″, oil on canvas

#A. Savage #The Past Too Is An Intruder #Andrew Savage #art #parquet courts #parkay quarts

[undiscoveredphoenix]

when parkay quarts said dust is everywhere...sweep! i felt that

#parkay quarts #honestly i slept on human performance #.monastic living still god though

[gloombog]

socrates died in the fuckin gutter

#music #parquet courts #parkay quarts

[amaurylandia]

#parque courts #Sunbathing Animal #garage #rock #punk #indie #art #post punk #rock & roll #brooklyn #new york #Parkay Quarts

[mono-a-mono]

Parquet Courts - Neighborhood Theatre (2 February 2017)

Neighborhood Theatre was Parquet Courts’ first time playing in Charlotte, NC. The show drew a handful of loyal fans, but mainly those new and less familiar with the band- more than expected for a cold Thursday night in February.

     Mary Lattimore, the opener, won over the early-comers with noise/experimental soothings of a concert harp distorted by pedals. Oddly relaxing, its was a strange juxtaposition for the Texan indie-punk band, but it worked.

     Parquet Courts began with a warm-up of slower songs from Human Performance, followed by a blitz of ‘Content Nausea’. Andrew Savage gave an impressive delivery of the vocals, seemingly all in the same breath. The first group of songs laid the groundwork for the rest of the set, which was charged through at a near breakneck speed.

Bassist Sean Yeaton stood center-stage and provided backing vocals, and Max Savage sat in the back on drums. Parquet Courts’ lead vocals and guitar is split between Andrew and Austin Brown. On the studio recordings, the voices are so similar they can be easily mistaken as one vocalist.

The songs were played back-to-back almost seamlessly, the few moments of silence during guitar changes were filled by political stage banter, which earned a few cheers in agreement, and heckler interrupting to shout "more music!".

Austin replied: "you paid for the music, this part's free."

'One Man, No City' to was dedicated to Austin’s Yemeni neighbor affected by the recent travel ban. Austin imparted an experience where his neighbor showed him good will relating “it feels good to be trusted”.

          The set spanned a little over hour and included newer songs from Human Performance as well as most fan-favorites, but no encore. As the house lights were raised, a few people seemed unsure of whether to wait for more songs or to leave, and wandered away. True, they performed 19 songs- which is a fair amount, but I still felt like I wanted more. It was only after the show that I began to realize how short each song truly is. Of all the songs played during the show, almost half of the songs were three minutes or shorter, with the shortest song barely reaching the one-minute mark. While like encore is compulsory, sometimes it just isn’t necessary. What they lacked in length was made up for in excellence. Parquet Courts put on great show... while it lasted.

#parquet courts #parkay quarts

[rastronomicals]

7:17 AM EDT June 22, 2023:

Parquet Courts - "Kevlar Walls" From the album Content Nausea (November 11, 2014)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Or Parkay Quarts.

Whatever makes them happy.

#Parquet Courts #Content Nausea #Kevlar Walls #Parkay Quarts

[freebird2]

And get this — he turns himself into a bonfire of human bones. Funniest shit I've ever seen.

#pq #parkay quarts #parquet courts #pc tumblr please exist #content nausea

[voidingintotheshout]

Content Nausea by Parquet Courts

Genre: Pavement-Style Indie Rock

Grade: B-

 If you wish that Pavement were still around, then you need to hear this group and this short (35 min) album/EP is a good place to start.

 Parquet Courts (sometimes styled Parkay Quarts) are another Brooklyn-based group of dudes making throwback music that clearly reveals its influences while trying to create its own sound. This group is doing that with the sound that the indie/college rock band Pavement did in the nineties. They’re even copying the aesthetic that Pavement stole from the great British post-punk group The Fall. In a way, their sound is a nice bridge between the ‘do whatever I want’ of The Fall combined with the hooky listenability of Pavement, whose song may not have always gone somewhere, but they were almost always a pop-aware band.

 This album seems to appear and disappear before you know it. Many of the songs here are quite short, and the inclusion of the staple “These Books Are Made for Walkin’” makes this album seem more like a long EP than a short album. There just isn’t enough there to carry you through it’s time. It seems like more of a place where the group threw a bunch of ideas than a frame for their best stuff.

 “Wow” you may be thinking “this sounds skippable” but you would be wrong. This EP album starts off strong with two of its best songs “Everyday it Starts” which is about a person’s fight with anxiety. The next track “Content Nausea” seems to take the statement of the first track, that his anxiety starts daily, and let the listener in to his own mind that is filled with unwanted thought spirals.

 The thing is that the album never really regains that initial open-ness or immediacy. The rest of the songs don’t seem to have much to do with that initial shot across the bow. Still, it’s one of those bands that an avid music listener can appreciate. Like, what musician’s style is being imitated by the song “Slide Machine?” I hear Lou Reed or The Velvet Underground, but maybe that’s just his voice. This album is a fun journey of discovery that is worth taking.

///

Oh, here’s the rubric for my ratings system:

A: ALMOST EVERYONE will like/appreciate this.

B: MOST PEOPLE will like/appreciate this.

C: SOME PEOPLE will like/appreciate this.

D: VERY FEW PEOPLE will like/appreciate this.

F: A FAILURE that by its very existence insults people by implying that anyone could ever like this.

+: Better than average for this grade. It’s close to being upgraded to the next higher grade, but not quite.

-: Lower than average for this grade. It’s close to being downgraded to the next lower grade, but not quite.

Thus, a C+ is a flawed thing that will probably be enjoyed by most people but few people will consider it excellent; think the Star Wars prequels. An A- is a flawed excellent thing that will probably be appreciated by everyone; think the original Star Wars trilogy.

#Parquet Courts #parkay quarts #Content Nausea #Slide Machine #everyday it starts #albums about anxiety #anxiety #these boots are made for walking #pavement #music review #lou reed #the velvet underground

[sonicdeath]

Parquet Courts - Free Ice

You know the dirt ain’t dirt in California She laughed at more like golden dust But I've been there before and there's a bridge It's made of gold, but the gate still rust I made up everything I knew When I wondered something about you Favorite times of day and favorite food I wish I knew more than I do

#parquet courts #parkay quarts #free ice #borrowed time

[newplaces2drown]

"Parkay Quarts" (at El Club)

#parquet courts #parkay quarts #live #detroit #punk #music

[gloombog]

u take the risk i'll get the reward!

#music #parquet courts #parkay quarts

[midwesternproper]

there's a drawer in my house that I try to keep closed but it's open there's a commitment that I made to be somewhere but it's broken an oblique mantra in my head it lies there on the floor like a bed that would collapse like a trap if it was spoken You gotta keep it even Even when you're uptight Even when you're happy even when you're reaching for some line I've had in mind, it's been repressed over time so I'm breathing seduced by an excuse that could not be made but I'm speaking

there's a phone with a number that I try not to call but it's ringing for someone I've tried to keep to myself but I'm singing

it's logic that's twisted and paraphrased and justified by a distance that separates a bond, bound of persistence You gotta keep it even Even when you're uptight Even when you're happy even when you're reaching for that drawer in my house that I try to keep closed but it's open

- Keep It Even // Parkay Quarts (Brooklyn, NY)