PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP
PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP
PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP
PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP
PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP
PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP
PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP
PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP
PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP
PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Exclusive LP

Parquet Courts
Wide Awake! Exclusive LP

$69.99
Parquet Courts
  • Color: Blue
  • Limited to: 1 Per Customer
Description

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing.

Wide Awake! is New York’s Parquet Courts’ fifth record since their formation in 2010. It’s also their most groundbreaking. It’s an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its center. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new territory that’s testament to the group’s restless spirit.

In part, this may be attributed to the fact that it’s produced by Brian Burton, better known as Danger Mouse, but it’s also simply a triumph of their songwriter’s art. The songs, written by Austin Brown and Andrew Savage, are filled with their traditional punk rock passion, as well as a lyrical tenderness, but are elevated to even greater heights by the dynamic rhythmic propulsion of Max Savage (drums) and Sean Yeaton (bass).

Ultimately then the message contained in Wide Awake! is complex. “In such a hateful era of culture, we stand in opposition to that — and to the nihilism used to cope with that — with ideas of passion and love,” Brown says. For Savage, it comes back to the deceptively complex goal of making people want to dance, powering the body for resistance through a combination of groove, joy, and indignation, “expressing anger constructively but without trying to accommodate anyone.”

Album includes printed lyric insert and a digital download.

Item Details
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Limited edition of: 500
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Mono/Stereo: Stereo
  • Catalog Number: RT-0001-1NC
Track Listing
  1. Total Football
  2. Violence
  3. Before the Water Gets Too High
  4. Mardi Gras Beads
  5. Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience
  6. Freebird II
  7. Normalization
  8. Back to Earth
  9. Wide Awake
  10. NYC Observation
  11. Extinction
  12. Death Will Bring Change
  13. Tenderness