The Next Big Thing (No.12) : Parquet Courts

From the Big Apple comes a big talent, Parquet Courts. The band consist of Andrew Savage (guitar, vocals), Austin Brown (guitar,vocals), Max Savage (drums) and Sean Yeaton (bass). Eventhough they label themselves as the realest deal in New York City, the members are not originally a New Yorker. The Savage brothers and Brown are from Texas while Yeaton is a Bostonian, the band most likely name it as Brooklyn-via-Texas band. Okay, We will shut it on the geographically side.

Parquet Courts are started by the circle friendship of Andrew and Austin, they both went to the same college (in Texas) and Andrew met Sean at a place that did house shows where his band came in. In 2011, the band released the classic form of their debut that most of the indie bands haven’t done for a while, they released the debut cassette, ‘American Specialties‘. This if followed by the band’s full length album, Light Up Gold, in 2012. After ‘Light Up Gold’ was released, the band and their work has been a success and giving story of ther music from mouth to mouth, and sparking them as one of the best new bands.

Andrew Savage wants to make the band as something different of what people have seen for New York, they eager to blow up the real side of New York, not the glamour or the New York’s perspective on TV. To add how they really love New York plus its scene, the band just will be the American sound not like bands who are from New York but then gradually do a transition once they step in United Kingdom’s scene. Austin put some examples to NME “ the problem with bands like the Strokes and Vampire Weekend is that they popped up over night and never paid their dues. Those bands have nothing to do with the DIY (do it yourself) scene in the city and it’s so exciting there at the moment, always has been. We just don’t relate to bands like that in anyway.”

Their songs like ‘Stoned And Starving’ and ‘Master Of My Craft’ are a great example in showing band’s genre as a fresh New York’s music (not that RnB or Jazz stuffs) and their thrashy punk.

It’s pretty clear that Parquet Courts represent the underdog culture, by seeing the band’s statement and their roots, they want to show the world the unseen space, the ugliness and the awkwardness that the world has avoided. Parquet Courts are different, “When I listen to a lot of indie-rock I feel like it’s trying too hard to be romantic and perfect and it represents a shallowness that runs through culture as a whole. Too many bands talk about ‘making it’ but what does that even mean? When you can see a band has been styled then what makes them any different to whever won American Idol?” Andrew added a strong point.

Maybe Parquet Courts sound very typical for their very underground statement, but as we see deeper, this band is genuine. People may think they are a cliche band who will say cliche things like “We only care about making musics not people who listen to them”, however Parquet Courts will show the global how to make it real and do it their way.