New Music Friday: Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life


Parquet Courts Sympathy For Life artwork




Parquet Courts have returned on this New Music Friday with Sympathy For Life – have a listen right here on Live4ever.

It wasn’t too long ago that Parquet Courts’ long awaited follow-up to Wide Awake! was unveiled, just back in August when Primal Scream and Pink Floyd were singled out as chief influences on the band’s seventh studio record.

“Wide Awake! was a record you could put on at a party,” Austin Brown said. “Sympathy For Life is influenced by the party itself.”

“Historically, some amazing rock records have been made from mingling in dance music culture – from Talking Heads to Screamadelica.”

“Our goal was to bring that into our own music. Each of us, in our personal lives, has been going to more dance parties. Or rather, we were pre-pandemic, which is when this record was made.”


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