Parquet Courts Human Performance review – a New York punk state of mind

(Rough Trade) Related: Parquet Courts: ‘Winning is the whole point’ Human Performance sees Parquet Courts sprucing up their sound – although that says less about any mainstream ambitions the fiercely DIY Brooklyn band may have and more about the fact their previous albums sounded like they were recorded in the kind of rusting bean can Daniel Johnston might have rejected on the grounds of poor acoustics. So while this fifth album is tighter and cleaner, it’s far from chart-ready. Instead ...

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