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Light Up Gold
ReleaseProduct
Light Up Gold
Artist
Parquet Courts
Label
Rough Trade
Catalogue Number
RT0490
Release Date
15 enero 2013

Little was said about Parquet Courts' debut effort, American Specialties. Released exclusively on cassette tape, the quasi-album was an odd collection of 4 track recordings that left those who were paying attention wanting more. A year of woodshedding live sets passed before the Courts committed another song to tape. The band's first proper LP, Light Up Gold, is a dynamic and diverse foray into the back alleys of the American DIY underground. Bright guitars swirl serpentine over looping, groovy post-punk bass lines and drums that border on robotic precision. While the initial rawness of the band's early output remains, the songwriting has gracefully evolved. Primary wordsmiths A. Savage and Austin Brown combine for a dynamic lyrical experience, one part an erudite overflow of ideas, the other an exercise in laid-back observation. Lyrically dense, the poetry is in how it flows along with the melody, often times as locked-in as the rhythm section.

“This record is for the over-socialized victims of the 1990's 'you can be anything you want', Nickelodeon-induced lethargy that ran away from home not out of any wide-eyed big city daydream, but just out of a subconscious return to America's scandalous origin," writes Savage in the album's scratched-out liner notes. Recorded over a few days in a ice-box practice space, Light Up Gold is equally indebted to Krautrock, The Fall, and a slew of contemporaries like Tyvek and Eddy Current Suppression Ring.

Though made up of Texan transplants, Parquet Courts are a New York band. Throw out the countless shallow Brooklyn bands of the blasé 2000's: Light Up Gold is a conscious effort to draw from the rich culture of the city - the bands like Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, and the Velvet Underground that are not from New York, but of it. A panoramic landscape of dilapidated corner-stores and crowded apartments is superimposed over bare-bones Americana, leaving little room for romance or sentiment. It's punk, it's American, it's New York... it's the color of something you were looking for.

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  1. 1 Master of My Craft 3:10 Comprar

    Master of My Craft

  2. 2 Borrowed Time 2:32 Comprar

    Borrowed Time

  3. 3 Donuts Only 1:21 Comprar

    Donuts Only

  4. 4 Yr No Stoner 1:50 Comprar

    Yr No Stoner

  5. 5 Yonder Is Closer to the Heart 2:59 Comprar

    Yonder Is Closer to the Heart

  6. 6 Careers in Combat 1:07 Comprar

    Careers in Combat

  7. 7 Light Up Gold I 0:18 Comprar

    Light Up Gold I

  8. 8 Light Up Gold II 1:13 Comprar

    Light Up Gold II

  9. 9 N Dakota 2:19 Comprar

    N Dakota

  10. 10 Stoned and Starving 5:11 Comprar

    Stoned and Starving

  11. 11 No Ideas 2:37 Comprar

    No Ideas

  12. 12 Caster of Worthless Spells 1:18 Comprar

    Caster of Worthless Spells

  13. 13 Disney PT 1:12 Comprar

    Disney PT

  14. 14 Tears of Plenty 3:15 Comprar

    Tears of Plenty

  15. 15 Picture of Health 2:44 Comprar

    Picture of Health

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