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Nov 6, 2014The 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.
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Nov 12, 2014Punk is alive, but it just needs a second to squeeze drops of Visine into its eyes before it can bust out ferocious riffs and sing about nothing, or stick it to the status quo but maintain Austin, Texas levels of weirdness.
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Dec 15, 2014The 12 songs are untamed thrill rides that recall some of New York’s rock innovators, particularly Lou Reed and Television.
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Dec 1, 2014Altogether, it offers a glimpse of what Parquet Courts could turn into. The future looks promising.
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Nov 10, 2014Content 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.
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Nov 10, 2014It’s a collection of songs that reflects anxiety and paranoia, a distrust of the present but also belief in their own ability. It also presents a band with a future in which they have opened up new avenues for themselves.
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Nov 12, 2014Nausea is easier to listen to than Sunbathing Animal in part because it seems less ambitious.
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Dec 1, 2014Savage and Brown are continuing their exploration of modern dread; anxiety as fuel for life's inherent mundanity
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Nov 6, 2014Content 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.
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Dec 15, 2014What's most intriguing about Content Nausea is listening for possible signposts as to where the next 'proper' Parquet Courts record might be headed.
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Nov 25, 2014Content Nausea is another satisfying gift from that era gone by, even if it’s in service of a critique of a future age.
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Nov 17, 2014Brittle, spare yet maximalist in sound, Content Nausea is mostly successful, with a few key missteps.
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Nov 11, 2014These guys will try anything once--except being boring.
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Nov 7, 2014Content Nausea reasserts Parkay Quarts as talented musicians able to deliver successive releases that are far more accomplished than many other big label garage-rock albums.
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Nov 6, 2014Almost all of this virtual grab bag's 12 songs go in slightly different directions, from the spoken-sung punk essay of the title track to cold lo-fi synth minimalism on "Psycho Structures" to a fairly straight-faced cover of Nancy Sinatra's country-rock classic "These Boots."
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Nov 12, 2014The two songwriters show moments of brilliance best appreciated while poring over the liner notes and lyric sheets. With some fine tuning, these guys could produce some fine content.
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Nov 6, 2014We’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