Wide Awake! is New York’s Parquet Courts’ fifth record since their formation eight years ago. It’s also their most groundbreaking. It’s an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its center. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new territory that’s testament to the group’s restless spirit.
01. TOTAL FOOTBALL 02. VIOLENCE 03. BEFORE THE WATER GETS TOO HIGH 04. MARDI GRAS BEADS 05. ALMOST HAD TO START A FIGHT / IN & OUT OF PATIENCE 06. FREEBIRD II 07. NORMALIZATION 08. BACK TO EARTH 09. WIDE AWAKE 10. NYC OBSERVATION 11. EXTINCTION 12. DEATH WILL BRING CHANGE 13. TENDERNESS
