Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!

Wide Awake! is New York’s Parquet Courts fifth record since their forma tion eight years ago. It’s also their most groundbreaking. It’s an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitar ianism. Love is at its center. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new territory that s testament to the group s restless spirit. In part, this may be attributed to the fact that it s produced by Brian Bur ton, better known as Danger Mouse, but it s also simply a triumph of their songwriter’s art.