Sunbathing Animal

by Parquet Courts

Sunbathing Animal cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 June 2014
  • Label: What's Your Rupture?
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 46:12
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Andrew Savage, Lea Cho, Sean Yeaton, Jonathan Schenke, Traditional, Austin Brown, Joe LaPorta, Max Savage

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Expanding upon their breakthrough debut, the Brooklyn-based group leans heavily into tightly coiled, repetitive grooves and verbose, literary lyricism. The record toggles violently between frantic punk tempos and sprawling, slower dirges that examine modern existential entrapment.

Genres

Descriptors: minimalistic, repetitive, desert, guitars, lo-fi, punchy, melodic, distorted

Tracklist

  1. Bodies Made Of (3:21)
  2. Black and White (3:02)
  3. Dear Ramona (2:34)
  4. What Color Is Blood (3:24)
  5. Vienna II (1:02)
  6. Always Back in Town (2:37)
  7. She's Rolling (6:33)
  8. Sunbathing Animal (3:52)
  9. Up All Night (1:02)
  10. Instant Disassembly (7:12)
  11. Ducking and Dodging (4:29)
  12. Raw Milk (3:59)
  13. Into the Garden (3:00)

Credits

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