Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal

Parquet Courts’ highly flammable third album clinches their place as one of the best—and smartest—rock bands of the post-grunge era. They're capable of mixing psychedelic looseness with the muscle of hardcore (“Sunbathing Animal”), odd post-punk experiments (“Vienna II”) with rambling, romantic ballads (“Instant Disassembly”), blues with Black Flag (“Ducking & Dodging”), and poetic visions with moments of hilarious plain-spokenness (“Whoever she might be going to bed with/You can read about that in her Moleskine,” goes a line on “Dear Ramona”). Students of history without being slaves to it, the band manages to synthesize about 70 years of guitar music into a strange, lopsided groove all their own.

TRACKLIST
Bodies Made Of
Black & White
Dear Ramona
What Color Is Blood
Vienna II
Always Back In Town
She's Rolling
Sunbathing Animal
Up All Night
Instant Disassembly
Ducking & Dodging
Raw Milk
Into The Garden

Condition: NM/NM