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YUNOREVIEW: DECEMBER 2014

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The magical monthly segment where I briefly touch down on a gauntlet of albums I didn't get a chance to review this past month. These are just my short, straightforward, passionate, biased opinions. Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution Parkay Quarts - Content Nausea The Neighbourhood - #000000 & #FFFFFF Taylor Swift - 1989 Charli XCX - Sucker Blockhead - Bells and Whistles The Budos Band - Burnt Offering Savages & Bo Ningen - Words To The Blind Gazelle Twin - Unflesh MONO - Rays of Darkness / The Last Dawn Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies PRhyme - S/T Theophilus London - Vibes

Parquet Courts and PC Worship - "Fell into the Wrong Crowd"

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https://soundcloud.com/parquet-courts/fell-into-the-wrong-crowd Can't say I was expecting this: an 11-minute collaborative live recording from PC Worship and the New York post-punks over at Parquet Courts. Isn't it "Parkay Quarts" now? Who knows? I certainly don't know if the song at all works, especially with its disgustingly distorted vocal, but I'll give it credit for being an interesting, left-field turn at the very least. Granted, it's not nearly as profound as anything off that other garage rock/post-punk surprise from earlier this year.

Parkay Quarts has a new album on the way called Content Nausea. It's out November 11 via What's Your Rupture? and doesn't feature this track. It'll be the band's second album this year, after Sunbathing Animal, whose review you'll find below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZkHxln2jQw

Parkay Quarts - "Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth"

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New York's Parquet Courts--or Parkay Quarts as it is stylized here--have a somewhat spotty past with me. While I really dug 2012's Light Up Gold, I felt left out in the cold on their last record, Sunbathing Animal. But because I'm a fan of Andrew Savage, the band's deep-voiced frontman, I'm still interested in seeing if the Parkay can top its previous material.

With "Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth," they're off to a good start. It's a long, dreary slow-burner, which there were a few of on Sunbathing Animal, but Savage has obviously upped his lyrical game here. He indulges in some Dylan-esque poetic abstractions while delivering them in a Lou Reed-style apathy. It actually keeps the track engaging as the band performs a simple, downtrodden instrumental that fuses lo-fi indie rock with alt-country.

Look for Parkay Quarts next album, Content Nausea, to be released via What's Your Rupture? on November 11th.