Monastic Living
An instrumental detour into abrasive noise rock, drone, and minimalist post-punk. Cold, repetitive, and deliberately challenging.
An instrumental detour into abrasive noise rock, drone, and minimalist post-punk. Cold, repetitive, and deliberately challenging.
It is basically Parquet Courts turning off their mics and letting their guitars scream and drone for thirty minutes.
A cold, insular meditation on repetition and abrasive textures that deliberately avoids easy resolution.
The vocals lean far further into absent than the rest of the catalogue.
“If you’re out to explore Parquet Courts for the first time, the facts are plain: you should pick any record rather than this”Read review
“While it would be foolish to dismiss Monastic Living as simply unlistenable, its concept far outweighs its content”Read review
“It plays like a joyless formal exercise that precludes a dialogue with the listener”Read review
“A litmus test for just how far down you’re willing to follow one of the most challenging, enigmatic, and brilliant bunch of wiseasses to emerge from this generation of indie rock”Read review
“The EP has little textural detail; the music is not immersive, much less transcendent”Read review
“Provides meditative, probing insight into the ever-evolving attitude of Parquet Courts”Read review
“There’s no doubt Parquet Courts consciously made the album challenging. If only it weren’t so unlistenable”
“An excuse to cut loose and have fun in unexplored musical territory, but it’s ultimately a self-indulgent quest”Read review
“It seems like Parquet Courts might be taking notes from labelmates Girl Band, producing some of their most uncompromising work to date. Monastic Living is a very curious move for the band”Read review
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