Shaky Knees Music Festival 2018: A Conversation With Parquet Courts
Parquet Courts performed for the second time at this year’s Shaky Knees Music Festival.
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Brooklyn, New York-based rock band Parquet Courts are no stranger to Georgia. In fact, this year was their second time performing at Shaky Knees Music Festival.
“Shaky Knees sounds like something that would have been written in someone’s death record 150 years ago,” joked Andrew Savage, one of the lead singers of the group. “Like, ‘He died of Shaky Knees, when the Shaky Knees epidemic was sweeping through Georgia.’”
The band’s latest album, “Wide Awake!,” was produced by Danger Mouse and is coming out May 18 via Rough Trade. Savage describes the new album as having “more evidence of dance music, a bit more, maybe more dub influence.” And with that, their DIY (do-it-yourself) rock- and punk-infused tunes have a bit more of a pep and step in them.
But since the band had played a late-night Shaky Knees show at Terminal West the night before their festival appearance on Saturday, Savage noted that he was most certainly not wide awake. But that’s not what the album’s title track, “Wide Awake”, is about anyway.
“I guess inspiration is the inspiration [behind ‘Wide Awake’]. It’s kind of a song about a euphoric moment of all-knowing realization,” Savage said. “Like, I’m wide awake. Everything is so clear to me now. The world is so plain to see right now. Of course that all fades away, but in certain moments, when things make so much sense, and everything is just so abundantly clear, that’s kind of what ‘Wide Awake’ is celebrating.”
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