Parquet Courts: "We want to have songs that people can dance to. It should be a party"

Parquet Courts are one of the hardest working bands out there. Gearing up to release their seventh full-length ‘Wide Awake!', the New York by way of Texas four-piece have essentially released a record a year since they've been going. But perhaps even more impressive is the fact that nothing ever seems to falter; they only get better.

Which is why, when a new addition to this current formula was revealed - producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse - fans were a bit cautious. "We definitely didn't go into it thinking we wanted to have something more polished," bassist Sean Yeaton ponders over the phone.

"But I think it had come to the point for us, especially after working on that record with Daniele Luppi [2017 collaborative album ‘Milano'], which was our first experience working with a producer, that it adds a lot to the creative process.

"To have this other set of ears to help out with creative differences that come up, and by having another person there who isn't playing the parts but is hearing you trying to work them out, provides a good sounding board.

'Wide Awake!' dives headfirst into this new shared territory by amalgamating the band's urgency with a new channelling of purpose.

"I have fond memories of recording and touring on all of [the albums], and in a way, it's kind of like a lot of pressure is taken off by the fact that it's not like our first rodeo. But I do think that so far it's our best rodeo," Sean chuckles