Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (Black Vinyl) Vinyl Record with their first new album

with their first new album in 22 years

but at the same time that totally destroy dancefloors with pulsating bass tones

singles with Daniel McNeill (White Denim) and a “final wrapping-up” with engineer Jim Vollentine (Spoon

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as the album's opening drum crashes and radio interference immediately make clear

Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (Black Vinyl) Vinyl Record with their first new albumA glorious mess of contradictions: it's the least representative, most rigidly structured song from an otherwise free ranging, stylistically sprawling album, somehow striking the middle ground between the militiaristic discipline of Pink Flag era Wire and the brain scrambling, desert storming cow punk of early Meat Puppets. It's a jackhammered '82 hardcore throwback that's so breathlessly paced, even a motormouthed wordsmith like Andy Savage has