Double J Pick of the Week

Parkay Quarts
Everyday It Starts

Brooklyn garage quartet Parquet Courts released one of the best albums of 2014 in the irresistibly catchy and shambolic Sunbathing Animal. It seems the band's Andrew Savage and Austin Brown are in some kind of creative purple patch, because they have made another excellent record under the name Parkay Quarts to cap off 2014.

On Everyday It Starts, one of the new album's many highlights, the band cook up a tense three minutes of slack, stoned and anxious post-punk.

"Every day it starts, anxiety," they sing. It's no wonder they're anxious. That urgent, repetitive two note guitar motif and almost tediously straight drum beat that loops over and over for the first minute of the song are enough to drive anyone to the edge. This just makes the release, courtesy of a messy but melodic guitar solo that lasts for most of the rest of the song, so much more powerful. It's an anarchic explosion of sound, a noisy emancipation from whatever it is that has the vocalist feeling so ill at ease.

But, by the end, we realise that noise is really just a lengthy detour. Every day it starts, anxiety.