
Parquet Courts' breakthrough album Light Up Gold showcases the Brooklyn-based indie rock quartet at their most urgent and compelling. Originally released in 2012, this critical darling helped establish the band's reputation for crafting tightly wound, intellectually charged rock songs that balance artistic ambition with raw energy.
The album captures the restless anxiety of modern urban life through A. Savage's introspective lyrics, which transform mundane details like wadded receipts and spare change into meditations on time's passage and creative stagnation. Light Up Gold finds the band channeling their "motivation neglect" into cathartic bursts of rock'n'roll, creating an essential document of early 2010s indie rock that continues to resonate with collectors and new listeners alike.
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- Format: Vinyl
- Label: Rough Trade
- Genre: Rock
- Release Date: 11/28/2025
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TRACKS
A1. Master Of My Craft
A2. Borrowed Time
A3. Donuts Only
A4. Yr No Stoner
A5. Yonder Is Closer To The Heart
A6. Careers In Combat
A7. Light Up Gold I.
A8. Light Up Gold II.
A9. N. Dakota
B1. Stoned And Starving
B2. No Ideas
B3. Caster Of Worthless Spells
B4. Disney P.T.
B5. Tears O' Plenty
B6. Picture Of Health
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