Parkay Quarts (Parquet Courts)- Content Nausea 2015 New Review

                                 

This album is the ideas behind half of the Parquet Courts Austin Brown and Andrew Savage. From Brooklyn, New York, the Parquet Courts have been churning out D.I.Y. art punk since 2011. This album was created with the moniker Parkay Quarts since the other half of the band was away due to a math degree and creating a family. This is not the first time they have used this name.It took them only two weeks to record and mix this album. This is the Parquet Courts fourth studio album and their second in a year.Clocking in at 35 minutes, it is full of jangle and swagger with loads of messy guitars and vocals.Evident on this album is clearly an attack on modern culture, Helping on the album is Jeff Brown on saxophone from Jackie O-Motherfucker and Bob Jones on fiddle from the Eaters.Every song on this album is great, but I wouldn't say this album is amazing. I still really like it. There is a cover from the 13th Floor Elevators "Slide Machine" and "These Boots are Made For Walking" from Lee Hazlewood (popularized by Nancy Sinatra). Their influences seem to be such artists as Television, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Suicide, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan Wire, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma ,Devo, Pavement, Built to Spill,, The Minutemen, The Talking Heads, Etc Good ole Rock and Roll. Rhett Taylor

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