Parquet Courts announce long-awaited seventh album

Sympathy For Life arrives in October via Rough Trade Records.

Venerated New York City quartet Parquet Courts have announced their return.

Regrouping with longtime label Rough Trade Records the band are prepped to release their seventh album entitled Sympathy For Life on October 22nd. The forthcoming album is expected to lean further in to the club-referencing tendencies that were explored within its praised predecessor Wide Awake!, with acknowledged influences spanning Primal Scream to New York nightlife and guitarist Austin Brown elaborating in a press release

“Wide Awake! was a record you could put on at a party. Sympathy For Life is influenced by the party itself.

Historically, some amazing rock records have been made from mingling in dance music culture – from Talking Heads to Screamadelica. Our goal was to bring that into our own music. Each of us, in our personal lives, has been going to more dance parties. Or rather, we were pre-pandemic, which is when this record was made.”

Hear and watch an accompanying visual for album opener ‘Walking At A Downtown Pace’ in advance below.

Sympathy For Life

1. ‘Walking At A Downtown Pace’
2. ‘Black Widow Spider’
3. ‘Marathon of Anger’
4. ‘Just Shadows’
5. ‘Plant Life’
6. ‘Application Apparatus’
7. ‘Homo Sapien’
8. ‘Sympathy for Life’
9. ‘Zoom Out’
10. ‘Trullo’
11. ‘Pulcinella’

Sympathy For Life releases on October 22nd via Rough Trade Records. Pre-order the album on black and green vinyl variants here.

Words by Sam Wilkinson.

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