Parquet Courts review – a sweaty hour of buzzsaw riffs and detuned melody

La Belle Angèle, EdinburghSuccess looks unlikely to mellow the DIY art-punk quartetDon’t call them slackers. Parquet Courts have cranked out five albums of agitated art-punk in as many years. But even as the venues steadily get bigger, the DIY quartet haven’t sanded off any of their spikier corners. When one fan in this enthusiastically crammed club won’t stop shouting requests, singer/guitarist Austin Brown shuts them down with the cheerful sarcasm of a veteran standup n...

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