Human Performance

by Parquet Courts

Human Performance cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 April 2016
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 46:11
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 11 ratings

Artists on this release: Andrew Savage, Max Savage, Sean Yeaton, Austin Brown, D. Crystal, Justin Pizzoferrato

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Brooklyn-based indie outfit refines their notoriously ramshackle, Velvet Underground-inspired garage rock into a surprisingly meticulous, emotionally vulnerable record. The album explores themes of severe urban isolation, dust-gathering anxiety, and romantic fallout, maintaining their signature deadpan delivery. It is frequently cited as their most thoughtful, mature, and sonically diverse collection of songs.

Genres

Descriptors: existential, lo-fi, dissonant, talk-singing, witty, detached, jangly, minimal, motorik

Tracklist

  1. Already Dead (03:51)
  2. Dust (03:57)
  3. Human Performance (04:15)
  4. Outside (01:45)
  5. I Was Just Here (01:48)
  6. Paraphrased (03:01)
  7. Captive of the Sun (02:03)
  8. Steady on My Mind (03:38)
  9. One Man No City (06:24)
  10. Berlin Got Blurry (03:26)
  11. Keep It Even (02:47)
  12. Two Dead Cops (03:05)
  13. Pathos Prairie (02:51)
  14. It's Gonna Happen (03:20)

Credits

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