Human Performance | Loppylugs

Submitted by Matthew Baker on 19 June 2016 - 9:49pm

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Artist:

Parquet Courts

album-ID:

a_185

Nationality:

USA

Year:

2 016

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Dust *Human Performance*Outside*I Was Just Here*Paraphrased*Captive Of The Sun*Steady On My Mind*One Man No City*Berlin Got Blurry*Keep It Even*Two Dead Cops*Pathos Prairie*It’s Gonna Happen

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_70

Now-num:

2 016

Spotify-URL:

4RNew41ZeRuoRNg3YAhvpe

Short-title:

HumanPerformance

nominator-ID:

u_2

Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

MusicBrainz-URL:

3353a8a0-a5ab-4970-b34e-090afcc2bba7

Wikipedia-URL:

Human_Performance

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

human-performance/parquet-courts

Discogs-URL:

Parquet-Courts-Human-Performance/master/983043

Allmusic-URL:

human-performance-mw0002924542

Musixmatch-URL:

Parquet-Courts/Human-Performance

Pitchfork-URL:

21597-human-performance/

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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Don't sweep this one under the parquet.

1-2-5-8

A proper good indie-rock album, enjoyable throughout, encompassing a range of styles but held together well by the common theme of their vocals and underlying slightly sleazy grooviness. Bits of this remind me of Modern Lovers, of east coast hardcore like More Fiends, and sometimes weirdly even of Let's Wrestle. Good tracks, full of hidden surprises, a keeper.
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reviewed by

Sian Thomas

This album sounds like the score to an independent film, one in which girl meets boy and both are a bit geeky. The final scene has them sitting side-by-side on a fallen tree, she's dressed as a raspberry, he's in a lobster costume. You think the music sound good while you're watching the film, then you buy it.

I wondered whether it was an homage to New York music and in its better moments I liked its humour and its invocation/negation of the city. However, the lead singer sounds like lots of different famous singers and I think that when the band gets together to rehearse someone says, 'So folks, who do we want to sound like today?' I got fed up with playing Name That Influence. Roxy Music, Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman all popped up. It made me want to listen to them instead.