Parquet Courts have revealed plans for a new album, proving to be fast and efficient. The busy rock band, made up of Andrew Savage, Austin Brown, Sean Yeaton and Max Savage has released a collaborative album with composer Daniele Luppi, and co-leader Andrew Savage has shared a solo album of his own. According to Stereogum, in a recent interview to DIY, Parquet Courts talked a little bit about the new album they are planning to release next year.
Parquet Courts’ follow-up to 2016’s Human Performance is currently being mixed, and it’s tentatively set for a May release. According to Savage, the new LP will be an enraged, politically charged affair. Here is what he said about it:
“I wanted to get back to writing raw songs. Things you can dance to and things I could harness my anger into, which is plentiful being in America right now. I didn’t write any love songs; it’s all rippers…
Whatever internal turmoil and unrest was happening [on Human Performance], that’s been mooted and replaced by an outward turmoil and a general state of unrest at living in the US. I think that honesty of one’s own time is what people are connecting to in art. It has to speak to the current condition or else it’ll have a very short shelf life…
If there’s one thing the record’s against, it’s nihilism. There’s way too much of [that] in my country and in society at large in the moment. I think that anger can be constructive. And there’s some unrest, for sure. But that can be positive. It’s not gonna be like a Lars Von Trier movie or anything.”
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