{"product_id":"light-up-gold","title":"Light Up Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003eParquet Courts’ debut cassette American Specialties offered a raw glimpse of their potential, but it was Light Up Gold that defined their sound and vision. The band’s first full-length album is a jagged, witty and tightly wound take on American punk and post-punk, recorded after a year of relentless gigging and honing their craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the record, bright, wiry guitars twist around propulsive basslines and machine-tight drums, channelling the drive of The Fall and the motorik groove of Krautrock. Lyrically, A. Savage and Austin Brown balance restless intellect with sardonic humour, their wordplay as rhythmic as the band’s taut interplay. As Savage notes in the album’s liner scribbles, Light Up Gold is for “the over-socialised victims of the 1990s Nickelodeon-induced lethargy” — the disenchanted and the searching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded in a frigid rehearsal space, the album situates Parquet Courts firmly within New York’s long lineage of restless innovation — music that’s not just from the city, but of it. It’s punk, it’s American, it’s urgent, and it sounds like the colour of something you were trying to find.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":54954218848579,"sku":"RPT-35672","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/1601\/8499\/files\/138924-parquet-courts-light-up.png?v=1792665074","url":"https:\/\/www.recordplant.co.uk\/products\/light-up-gold","provider":"Record Plant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}