Interview: Parquet Courts

Earlier this month Parquet Courts lifted the lid off their fifth studio album, the intriguingly titled Human Performance. Following on from their 2014 full-length offerings Sunbathing Animal and Content Nausea (which brought them to New Zealand for a four-date tour) the new record has been hailed as the product of a time of personal instability - picking apart and analysing the anxieties of modern life.

With the album on the loose we thought it would be a good time to catch up with lead singer Andrew Savage and learn more about the thematic threads holding Human Performance together. Here he is in conversation with Michael McClelland (who also interviewed Andrew for UTR little over a year ago) talking about the album, the American prison system, anxiety and more...

Click here to read the interview, and watch Parquet Courts perform 'Outside'...

Human Performance is out now via Rough Trade Records