Wide awaaaaake!

"På deres sjette album har Parquet Courts hentet inspiration fra verdensmusik, powerpop og psychedelia med et solidt fokus rettet på melodiøse kompositioner, hvilket giver klædelig kontrast til den drengerøvede garagepunk ... Dette er solide vidnesbyrd om de forskelligartede elementer, der implementeres og samler sig til en sammenhængende selvfølgelighed i hænderne på Parquet Courts. Omend det har kostet på den krasbørstige del af kontoen, vejes det absolut op med den musikalske diversitet, bandet lægger for dagen. Med `Wide Awake!' har Parquet Courts for alvor positioneret sig som et langtidsholdbart rockband".

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"... a fun punk-funk protest record. The Brooklyn guitar band shakes its money-maker on an LP of woke jams".

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"f the ballad-heavy Human Performance (2016) found New York's Parquet Courts finally starting to cast off their lo-fi trappings, then the follow-up, their sixth album, takes their shuffle into commercialism several steps further by bringing in Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton as producer. Musically, it's easily their most expansive set to date, with squally punk (Total Football) rubbing up against 60s bubblegum pop (Mardi Gras Beads), woozy psychedelia (Back to Earth) and the clattering early-00s punk-funk of Wide Awake".

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