Parquet Courts are about to drop once again like heavily interlaced wooden flooring on a builder’s head with the announcement of their new EP, Tally All The Things That You’ve Broke. As well as an ongoing and seemingly never ending UK tour the Brooklyn four piece has also released a stream of You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now, the lead track from the EP, to celebrate the launch of their latest material.
Building on their 2011 debut, American Specialities, and the critically acclaimed 2012 follow-up, Light Up Gold, the upcoming EP is described by the band as less of a stop-gap between full length studio albums and more of a continuation or stretching out of their sound in the shorter term. In other situations it might be easy to rubbish such a claim, but with the sheer impact of You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now alone, you can tell that they’ve got a point and we definitely wouldn’t want to wait for it to come out on an album in a year or so.
Tally All The Things That You’ve Broke is set for a release date of the 8th October 2013 as a part of their recently signed distribution with the What’s Your Rupture? record label. The EP is made up of five tracks, and if You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now is anything to go by they should add to the growing reputation of band members, Sean Yeaton (bass), Austin Brown (guitar), Andrew Savage (lead vocals and guitar) and Max Savage (drums).
It’s a beast of a track with chunks of grunge, punk and rock all condensed in the mix. Listen to the stream below to hear for yourself, but our take is that it sounds like the bigger, older and more aggro brother to a Los Camposinos, Ramones and Velvet Underground love child. It’s got great rock n roll punk pace and blitzes out feedback flare and solid fuzz in equal measures.
Parquet Courts, Got Me Wonderin’ Now stream:
Parquet Courts, Tally All The Things That You’ve Broke track list:
1. You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now
2. Descend (The Way)
3. The More It Works
4. Fall On Yr Face
5. He’s Seein’ Paths
The Parquet Courts UK tour is already well under way with recent sets at the Old Blue Last in London and the Green Man Festival in Wales. However, there are still a fair few tour date still to go, so if you want to catch the band live before they head back to Brooklyn the gig dates are below.
Parquet Courts 2013 UK & Ireland tour dates:
16th August 2013 – Green Man Festival, Wales
19th August 2013 – Old Blue Last, London
23rd August 2013 – Leeds Festival, Leeds
24th August 2013 – Reading Festival, Reading
30th August 2013 – End of the Road, North Dorset
31st August 2013 – Electric Picnic, Dublin
8th September 2013 – Bestival, Isle of Wight
28th October 2013 – Village Underground, London
29th October 2013 – Gorilla, Manchester
30th October 2013 – Brudenell, Leeds
31st October 2013 – Mono, Glasgow
