Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal - VINYL LP

Limited vinyl LP pressing. 2016 , the third album from the New York band. Human Performance establishes Parquet Courts as simply one of the best rock bands active in the world right now, no qualifiers needed. Not Inchin Brooklyn,Inch not Inchsomething-something millennial,Inch not Inchart-rock thisInch or Inchslacker indie thatInch - but a brilliant, accomplished rock band that have established themselves as deserving a role in the historical legacy of the genre alongside the likes of The Velvet Underground, REM, Sonic Youth, and Pavement. This album - their masterpiece - brings together the tunefulness, wit, and guitar wizardry that earned them a crush of critical praise and excitable fans right out of the gate, with a deeply human sense of drive, of yearning, and of wisdom earned. At times nearly overwhelming in it's emotional density, at others astonishing with sheer sonic deftness, Human Performance is a rare achievement breathtaking and brilliant. Album Tracks 1. Dust 2. Human Performance 3. Outside 4. I Was Just Here 5. Paraphrased 6. Captive of the Sun 7. Steady on My Mind 8. One Man, No City 9. Berlin Got Blurry 10. Keep It Even 11. 2 Dead Cops 12. Pathos Prairie 13. It's Gonna Happen

Vinyl LP pressing. Parquet Courts' thought-provoking rock is dancing to a new tune. Sympathy For Life finds the Brooklyn band at both their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling into fresh territory, yet maintaining their unique identity. Built largely from improvised jams, inspired by New York clubs, Primal Scream and Pink Floyd and produced in league with Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Hot Chip, David Byrne), Sympathy For Life was always destined to be dancey. Unlike it's globally adored predecessor, 2018's Wide Awake! The focus fell on grooves rather than rhythm. Album Tracks 1. Walking at a Downtown Pace 2. Black Widow Spider 3. Marathon of Anger 4. Just Shadows 5. Plant Life 6. Application/Apparatus 7. Homo Sapien 8. Sympathy for Life 9. Zoom Out 10. Trullo 11. Pulcinella

Originally released in 2012, Light Up Gold is being made available via Rough Trade Records on November 28, 2025.Light Up Gold - Parquet Courts first proper LP - is a dynamic and diverse foray into the back alleys of the American DIY underground. Bright guitars swirl serpentine over looping, groovy post-punk bass lines and drums that border on robotic precision. While the initial rawness of the band's early output remains, the songwriting has gracefully evolved. Primary wordsmiths A. Savage and Austin Brown combine for a dynamic lyrical experience, one part an erudite overflow of ideas, the other an exercise in laid-back observation. Lyrically dense, the poetry is in how it flows along with the melody, often times as locked-in as the rhythm section.InchThis record is for the over-socialized victims of the 1990's 'you can be anything you want', Nickelodeon-induced lethargy that ran away from home not out of any wide-eyed big city daydream, but just out of a subconscious return to America's scandalous origin, Inch writes Savage in the album's scratched-out liner notes. Recorded in an ice-box practice space, Light Up Gold is equally indebted to Krautrock, The Fall, and a slew of contemporaries like Tyvek and Eddy Current Suppression Ring.Though made up of Texan transplants, Parquet Courts are a New York band. Throw out the countless shallow Brooklyn bands of the blasé 2000's Light Up Gold is a conscious effort to draw from the rich culture of the city - the bands like Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, and the Velvet Underground that are not from New York, but of it. A panoramic landscape of dilapidated corner-stores and crowded apartments is superimposed over bare-bones Americana, leaving little room for romance or sentiment. It's punk, it's American, it's New York... it's the color of something you were looking for. Album Tracks 1. Master of My Craft 2. Borrowed Time 3.