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Parquet Courts - Live at Third Man Records (2015) MP3VBR Beolab1700
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Parquet Courts - Live at Third Man Records
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Artist...............: Parquet Courts
Album................: Live at Third Man Records
Genre................: Indie
Source...............: Vinyl
Year.................: 2015
Codec................: LAME 3.99
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 251kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:
black 12"
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Normalized, balanced, added fades at start/end of each side
thanks to Zaireeka
Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 01/09/2015
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Tracklisting
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1. Parquet Courts - Duckin' & Dodgin' [04:54]
2. Parquet Courts - Instant Disassembly [08:07]
3. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal [03:47]
4. Parquet Courts - Always Back in Town [03:02]
5. Parquet Courts - Raw Milk [10:06]
6. Parquet Courts - Vienna II [01:05]
7. Parquet Courts - Dear Ramona [02:43]
8. Parquet Courts - Into the Garden [01:02]
9. Parquet Courts - Descend [04:39]
10. Parquet Courts - Black and White [02:49]
11. Parquet Courts - Bodies [03:08]
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Indie rock’s post-millennial promotion from sub- cultural soundtrack to mainstream muzak has often been framed as a happy byproduct of an industry in turmoil, with the kingmaking powers once wielded by major labels, MTV, and commercial radio ceded to online file-sharing, iPod commercials, and Natalie Portman namedrops. But there’s another big reason why veteran alt-rock acts who were playing clubs 20 years ago — the Flaming Lips, Wilco, Modest Mouse — now find themselves headlining festivals: jam-band fans. Relentlessly loyal to artists and financially secure enough to follow them across the country, jam-band heads are the unsung benefactors helping to keep the enterprise afloat. And if ever there was a band that should capitalize on this crossover, it’s Parquet Courts.
Like their patron saint Stephen Malkmus—who could see the proverbial weed cloud looming on the horizon when he titled a song on the last Pavement album “Folk Jam”—Parquet Courts’ sarcastic verbosity can’t fully conceal their latent desire to lock into a groove, zone out, and coast on that perfect sound forever. And in terms of appealing to jam-band enthusiasts—well, what demographic can better relate to a song like “Stoned and Starving”?
Alas, that standout from Parquet Courts’ 2012 breakthrough Light Up Gold is nowhere to be found on the band’s new live album. But in lieu of such readymade 420 clarion calls, Parquet Courts assert their jam-band bona fides the old fashioned way: by stretching four-minute songs into 10-minute songs. Cut last June at Third Man’s intimate Blue Room venue-cum-recording studio, Live at Third Man Records is essentially Parquet Court’s 2014 Sunbathing Animal (of its 11 tracks, this release features 10 songs from that record) if it were left to scorch in the desert a little longer.
Listening to this album, I’m reminded of an old legend about the Pixies playing select concerts backwards—i.e., opening the concert with the encore, leaving the stage, and then returning to play their proper set in reverse order. Because in this context, the blitzkrieged banter of “Duckin & Dodgin” sounds less like an introduction than the sort of delirious high point a band hits two hours into a marathon set, when they’re running on nothing but adrenaline. Following that, it’s actually something of a miracle that singer/guitarist Andrew Savage has anything left for the rest of the show, but his increasingly hoarse hectoring actually serves to streamline Sunbathing Animal’s grab-bag selections, investing the proto-punk shimmy of “Black & White” and the Minutemen-esque oddity “Vienna II” with the same brutish urgency.
So when the alternately comforting and needling riff to “Instant Disassembly” emerges at the halfway point, it not only presents the band with a deserved opportunity to exhale, but also nudges Savage and Austin Brown toward a twin-guitar fadeout that effectively transforms the song from Parquet Courts’ “Here” into its “Free Bird”. But Parquet Courts take their greatest liberties with the roughshod rumble of “Raw Milk”, which gets distended to more than twice its original length through an extended feedback meltdown that proves to be an unexpectedly affecting setup for Sunbathing Animal’s closing ballad “Into the Garden”. Parquet Courts may not be playing Bonnaroo this year, though in many respects, they’re already there. However, the closing charge through Sunbathing Animal’s hardcore-hammered title track serves as a warning that you hacky-sack to these guys at your own risk.
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