Parquet Courts Announce New Album Wide Awake!, Release “Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience”
The prolific post-punks Parquet Courts recently sent postcards to fans advertising the URL wideawake.am, where an animated alarm clock ticked down the minutes until 10 a.m. this morning and the announcement of the band’s sixth studio album, Wide Awake!, out May 18 from Rough Trade. The new record was produced by Danger Mouse, an unexpected collaboration from a band whose existing catalog is self-produced. In a press release, Parquet Courts explain that it was Danger Mouse (a.k.a. Brian Burton) who approached them, and frontman A. Savage has this to say about the decision to team up with the guy behind the most recent Black Keys and Red Hot Chili Peppers albums:
“The ethos behind every Parquet Courts record is that there needs to be change for the better, and the best way to tackle that is to step out of one’s comfort zone. I…