Parquet Courts have announced details of their new album, ‘Wide Awake!’
The record is their sixth album, and follows 2016’s ‘Human Performance’. In a review, NME said: “Parquet Courts are at their best when singer Andrew Savage is foaming at the mouth […] The 30-year-old seems reassuringly unsettled on ‘Human Performance’.
‘Wide Awake!’, which will be released on May 18 via Rough Trade, was produced by Danger Mouse – a combination even the band say is unexpected. “I personally liked the fact that I was writing a record that indebted to punk and funk, and [Danger Mouse]’s a pop producer who’s made some very polished records,” guitarist and singer Andrew Savage said in a press release. “I liked that it didn’t make sense.”
The New York group have also shared the first track from the record, titled ‘Almost Had To Start A Fight/In And Out Of Patience’. Listen to the song below.
The tracklist for ‘Wide Awake!’ is as follows:
‘Total Football’
‘Violence’
‘Before The Water Gets Too High’
‘Almost Had To Start A Fight/In And Out Of Patience’
‘Freebird II’
‘Normalization’
‘Back To Earth’
‘Wide Awake’
‘NYC Observation’
‘Extinction’
‘Death Will Bring Change’
‘Tenderness’
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Earlier this year, Parquet Courts fans started receiving mysterious postcards with art by Savage and the URL wideawake.am. The site showed a countdown timer, which was scheduled to end at 10am today (February 22).
