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Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

  • Summary: Credited under the name Parkay Quarts, the fourth full-length release for the New York's Parquet Courts was recorded over a two-week period on a four-track tape and features contributions from Jackie-O Motherfucker's Jef Brown and the Easter's Bob Jones.
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  • Record Label: What's Your Rupture?
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Noise Pop
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  1. Positive: 16 out of 17
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  1. 85
    The music itself is, in truth, not all that much of a departure from the trademark spiky, speedy post-punk that found a home on Light Up Gold and Sunbathing Animal. But the album’s covers, something hitherto avoided, offer a little respite from the repetition.
  2. Nov 10, 2014
    80
    Content Nausea sees the band’s Andrew Savage and Austin Brown bashing out a short, pithy not-quite-an-LP while their fellow bandmates variously become parents and math graduates.
  3. Dec 15, 2014
    80
    The 12 songs are untamed thrill rides that recall some of New York’s rock innovators, particularly Lou Reed and Television.
  4. Nov 6, 2014
    75
    Content Nausea doesn’t feel like a landmark release for the band, more of a palette of ideas and experience mixed together with some undeniably great songs.
  5. Nov 25, 2014
    70
    Content Nausea is another satisfying gift from that era gone by, even if it’s in service of a critique of a future age.
  6. Nov 11, 2014
    70
    These guys will try anything once--except being boring.
  7. 60
    We’re treated to a combination of short, instrumental segments and lyrically-driven, radical, long jams that sound familiar, yet unpredictable enough to demand further listening

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