Parquet Courts - Tally All The Things That You Broke 12" normal functions as an invitation to

functions as an invitation to the elegies which follow

while original release was crammed onto a single disc

but they also deliver the jolt of energy we need to face another day

The album marks an interesting point in Jamaican music where the past and the future are visible in the grooves of a single LP—from classic rocksteady-tinged love songs like “That’s When It Hurts” and “Rock Me In Your Soul” to the Rasta anthem “Rejoice Jah Jah Children

and on The Sacrilicious Sounds… - and especially on the single “Born With a Tail” - singer Eddie Spaghetti’s woeful country laments begin to poke more assertively through their raw punk aggro

Parquet Courts - Tally All The Things That You Broke 12" normal functions as an invitation toOriginally released in 2013, the Tally All The Things That You Broke EP is far more than a stopgap in between full lengths; its the sound of Parquet Courts stretching out. It frames the band coming from a new place, and is a post millenial NYC anthem, quintessential sounds for anyone whos ever waited in anticipation of dialing that number, or anyone whos put on their game face and rode from point A to point B in the snarl of vicious traffic.