by Jake McKenzie
photo by Ebru Yildiz
One of Parquet Courts’ chief assets is how their sound continues to evolve from each album to the next. This natural evolution of sound should be a standard feature of any great rock act but in the modern era, music is often designed to please Spotify’s algorithm instead of to satisfy an artist’s creativity. And so we end up with piles of records that are as predictable as they are easy to ignore. Parquet Courts are anything but. Their 2018 release Wide Awake! has been described as their “woke funk-punk phase.” Their sound clearly will never be everyone’s cup of tea but for fans, Parquet Courts represent a breath of fresh air in a stagnating music scene. Frontman A. Savage summed it up at 2018’s Lollapalooza when he said: “This song goes out to all the Post Malone fans in the front row. I’ve never wanted anything more than to play to a crowd this confused and disgruntled.”
