Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal (What’s Your Rupture?/Mom + Pop)

Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal (What’s Your Rupture?/Mom + Pop)

When writing about Parquet Courts, it’s hard not to just recite a bullet-pointed list of bands who they sort of sound like: Television! The Feelies! The Fall! The Strokes! The inevitable Pavement! That’s because these guys sound like they’ve ingested and internalized the last three or four decades of too-smart-for-its-own-good guitar-based whiteboy indie rock, spluttering it back out into a tangled, tense, groggy, slack-but-jittery ball of exposed neuroses and sidelong observations. But on Sunbathing Animal, they’re more than the sum of their parts, and those parts still complement each other, the tightly-wound angular guitars only hiding the densely poetic lyrics until you listen close. –Tom [LISTEN]