PARQUET COURTS - Wide Awake! LP Guitar Picking As Maitreya Kali

As Maitreya Kali

voices appear and disappear under the wash and you're carried along not knowing when you'll be set back down

Oakland California's Galena slowly stirs the pot with dark menacing synth layers

at the summit of the decade's long

then go to the studio and use the material as starting points for songs

PARQUET COURTS - Wide Awake! LP Guitar Picking As Maitreya KaliParquets Courts' fifth album Wide Awake! produced by Danger Mouse is a groundbreaking work, an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. The songs, written by Andrew Savage and Austin Brown but elevated to even greater heights by the dynamic rhythmic propulsion of Max Savage (drums) and Sean Yeaton (bass), are filled with their traditional punk rock passion, as well as a lyrical tenderness. The record