Parquet Courts got no end of attention this year with the release of Wide Awake! and their subsequent promotion of it. As with Courtney's record I liked individual songs better than the album itself. But while Courtney will feature in my LP rundown Parquet Courts will not, there were a few tracks on Wide Awake! that I just disliked too much. Still, there were also many fine things on it, not least this.
The promo for the song, attached here, illustrates what grates slightly about this band. Their non-stop, full on cockiness. While they share this characteristic with their obvious forbears, Pavement and Sonic Youth, The Courts are so unceasingly in your face about exactly how good they think they are that it irritates more than a little. OK, but I think they're good too, and this won't be the last time they'll feature on this particular countdown.
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