yeah i'm digging this
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
So far I think I like "Light Up Gold" more, it was a little songier and more of a pleasant surprise, but the new one could grow on me. I really like the lyrics.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
new one sounds pretty good but the idea that it's much better than the first is o_O
― alpine static, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I dunno, I'm not feeling the new one as much.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
"ducking & dodging" is what i assume all hold steady songs sound like.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
Ha ha NOPE
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
only 1+ listens but i'm impressed at how different it is from the first album. definitely a gear i wasn't sure they had.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Man that Chrisma song andrew m. posted is absolutely killer - thanks for that! Got it on repeat!
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 5 June 2014 11:00 (ten years ago) link
Ok this new one is pretty boring. Couple of winners, but not enough hooks!
― famous instagram God (waterface), Thursday, 5 June 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
yuppp
I stan hard for both the Modern Lovers and Pavement -- the most obvious reference points here imo -- and this has all their signifiers but none of their charm.
― franklin, Thursday, 5 June 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
On first listen, I don't like this as much as the previous album or EP. Will give it a chance though.
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 June 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
fuuuuuck this album is so good. gonna be listening to this all summer
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:17 AM (4 weeks ago)
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 July 2014 05:30 (nine years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/15777-parquet-courts-sunbathing-animal-review
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
This is my fave album of the year. I certainly don't think it's a bad facsimile of Pavement. I mean I hear a lot of bands in their sound and it doesn't detract from my enjoyment. You seem to be hung up on originality all the time which probably isn't the best attitude when reviewing a rock album in the '10s. There's some great lyrics on this record as well but you make no mention of that.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
This record reminds me a lot more of Swell Maps than Pavement. "Instant Disassembly" is an instant classic but I kinda miss the tunefulness of the first LP and EP a lot of the time. It feels like a record that was written on tour - don't know if it was. It's got that road-weary vibe and the emphasis on stuff that would translate well on stage. Feel like they were aiming a lot more for one specific mode that on previous releases.
― o. nate, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
I think the tunes are stronger on this one tbh.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
Huh- apparently it was written on tour:
Vocalist and guitarist Austin Brown stated, "We had to kind of squeeze recording in between long runs of touring; whenever we had a couple of weeks off, we’d try to arrange a few days in the studio."... Many of the album's lyrics were written whilst on tour in support of Light Up Gold.
I swear I hadn't read that before posting.
― o. nate, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Sorry meant to post the link too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbathing_Animal
― o. nate, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
this was my review -- without knowing for sure that it was written on tour, that was my guess.
http://www.redefinemag.com/2014/parquet-courts-sunbathing-animal-album-review-whats-rupture/
― Neil Patrick Haggerty (get bent), Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
I like all the songs on the Sunbathing Animal when they come up individually on shuffle - it's just hearing them all at once that gets a bit too samey for me. But then again, I have the same issue with canonical bands like The Fall, so maybe it's me.
― o. nate, Friday, 18 July 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
this doesn't do much for me.
― akm, Friday, 18 July 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
yup
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 21 July 2014 14:04 (nine years ago) link
still loving this, tho taking it in measured doses so as to extend shelf life. agree that it's hard to avoid framing PC w/o ref to pavement, similarities are unavoidable, but maybe it's more about how comfortably the quarts would have slotted into "indie rock" as it was conceived circa 92-?, pavement's shining moment. the sound they're working isn't so completely tied down, owing to the velvets, television, modern lovers, swell maps, feelies, sonic youth even. moderns digging the same hole: eddy current suppression ring, tyvek (also on wyr? no surprise). i suppose it's that pavement are the end of that line, or seem like it from here, something about the early 00s "rock revival" making every too-similar subsequent feel like a cargo cult, heyday gazing.
that's unfair, of course. the appearance of one moment from another isn't definitive, just transitional perspective. but PC do make a rather fastidious point of not adding anything to the corpus that wasn't already present. even the meta stuff & in-joke self-mockery are straight pavement, the overheard strains of "the last classic rock band" dialed in from "fillmore jive". do like the noisier moments on this one, give it some cute, scrappy, fuck-you swagger, again unavoidably nostalgic. and the lyrics are, at least occasionally, excellent, "instant disassembly" being the obvious standout. would like to see them fuck with the formula just a little bit, but they're just getting started, so it seems boorish to complain.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah, pavement are just the final point of a postpunk/art rock continuum and the references to them w/r/t parquet courts are definitely overstated, but it'd be a lie to say they're not an influence.
― Neil Patrick Haggerty (get bent), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
I tried to get a mate into them and he said he likes the music (reminds him of the fall and pavement) but thought the guys vocals were terrible and had no character. i thought it was an odd criticism tbh. i like the guys vocals fwiw - the bug-eyed and breathless vocals on "sunbathing animal" and malkmus-ian slacker drawl on "dear ramona".
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
There are two vocalists actually, but I can't always tell them apart.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
"Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth"?
― the late great, Friday, 17 October 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
not gonna point out the obvious pavement reference
― the late great, Friday, 17 October 2014 05:58 (nine years ago) link
Ok don't
― jaymc, Friday, 17 October 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link
couldn't help it
― the late great, Friday, 17 October 2014 06:48 (nine years ago) link
a Teenage Cool Kids cover
― nostormo, Friday, 17 October 2014 10:09 (nine years ago) link
This has grown on me quite a bit. I still skip the first track, but otherwise I play this straight through.
― o. nate, Thursday, 6 November 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve5SV0Ufxu4
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 November 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
Hey this new one is great! I even like the 'These Boots' cover. It's all nicely textured
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Friday, 14 November 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Content Nausea at first listen is more immediately appealing than Sunbathing Animal was.
― o. nate, Friday, 21 November 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
wow, i'm happy about this new one...i loved the first stuff then sunbathing animal made me doubt the whole thing like "why did i like this band again" but content nausea is awesome
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
saw them last weekend. blown off the stage by Horse Lords, but most bands are no match. went in not knowing PC very well (my brother is a massive fan), but now I've listened to "Borrowed Time" probably ten times in a row. phenomenal song, cant wait to get my copy of LIGHT UP GOLD in the mail
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
ok i didn't know horse lords, this band fucking rules wow
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Indeed, that Horse Lords record is great. Hope I get to see them live soon, all reports suggest that they are supremely cool in the live context.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:26 PM (15 minutes ago)
+!!!
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
this is like an evolution of sweep the leg johnny
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
I'm confused, how does this band relate to PC?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
played a show w/, do keep up.
i mean track 1 just busted into bongo beat breakdown and i am not only still on board, i am more on board than ever. the fuck you say.
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
that one time
I'm 4 minutes into the first song and it's amazing. I'm going out tomorrow and buying this album.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
this reminds me of Nomo a bit too
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
Horse Lords are insanely cool
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
yes, amazing
Horse Lords
― WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
get the mixtapes first
wow the new ep fucking sucks
― flappy bird, Friday, 27 November 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link