Content Nausea
A jittery, tape-saturated dispatch of modern anxiety. Sparse post-punk and deadpan poetry recorded in a rush of urban claustrophobia.
November 11, 2014 · What's Your Rupture?
A jittery, tape-saturated dispatch of modern anxiety. Sparse post-punk and deadpan poetry recorded in a rush of urban claustrophobia.
November 11, 2014 · What's Your Rupture?
Cheap tape recorders hiss beneath frantic, skeletal guitar riffs and a voice spitting dry poetry. It feels like pacing a cramped apartment while the radiator rattles and the city hums outside.
“Parquet Courts are our ambassadors to a very specific time and place in the past, and Content Nausea is another satisfying gift from that era gone by, even if it’s in service of a critique of a future age”Read review
“Takes ideas expressed and hinted at on their previous releases, and follows them somewhere altogether freakier”Read review
“Includes some of their most approachable work to date, finding a little contentment without losing their restlessness talent”Read review
“Savage and Brown bark their anxieties about modern life with enough wit to suggest that they’re aware of the convention and enough passion to suggest that they feel those anxieties anyhow”Read review
“There are some echoes of both the aggression and exhaustion that characterized the best moments of Sunbathing Animal”Read review
“These guys will try anything once – except being boring”Read review
“The only problem here is that the point they’re trying to make barely extends beyond vindicating their choice to refrain from social media culture”Read review
“Savage and Brown’s nausea is a sickness that we all share. Their record’s the closest thing we have to finding a cure”Read review
“Dominated by fears, anxieties, traffic, frustrations at the pace of change”Read review
“Far more accomplished than many other big label garage-rock albums”
How does Content Nausea sound next to the rest of Parquet Courts's catalogue?
By retreating from polished studios into a cramped apartment, the band allows a gritty lo fi hiss to coat every frequency, making the entire record sound like a desperate, tape-saturated transmission.
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