{"product_id":"pre-order-light-up-gold-cd","title":"Light Up Gold [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 2012, Light Up Gold is being made available via Rough Trade Records on November 28, 2025.Light Up Gold - Parquet Courts first proper LP - is a dynamic and diverse foray into the back alleys of the American DIY underground. Bright guitars swirl serpentine over looping, groovy post-punk bass lines and drums that border on robotic precision. While the initial rawness of the band's early output remains, the songwriting has gracefully evolved. Primary wordsmiths A. Savage and Austin Brown combine for a dynamic lyrical experience, one part an erudite overflow of ideas, the other an exercise in laid-back observation. Lyrically dense, the poetry is in how it flows along with the melody, often times as locked-in as the rhythm section.\"This record is for the over-socialized victims of the 1990's 'you can be anything you want', Nickelodeon-induced lethargy that ran away from home not out of any wide-eyed big city daydream, but just out of a subconscious return to America's scandalous origin, \" writes Savage in the album's scratched-out liner notes. Recorded in an ice-box practice space, Light Up Gold is equally indebted to Krautrock, The Fall, and a slew of contemporaries like Tyvek and Eddy Current Suppression Ring.Though made up of Texan transplants, Parquet Courts are a New York band. Throw out the countless shallow Brooklyn bands of the blasé 2000's: Light Up Gold is a conscious effort to draw from the rich culture of the city - the bands like Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, and the Velvet Underground that are not from New York, but of it. A panoramic landscape of dilapidated corner-stores and crowded apartments is superimposed over bare-bones Americana, leaving little room for romance or sentiment. It's punk, it's American, it's New York... it's the color of something you were looking for.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaster of My Craft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorrowed Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDonuts Only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYr No Stoner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYonder Is Closer to the Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCareers in Combat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLight Up Gold I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLight Up Gold II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eN Dakota\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStoned and Starving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Ideas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaster of Worthless Spells\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisney PT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTears of Plenty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePicture of Health\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 191402049022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rough Trade Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12.12.25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Parquet Courts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58320517496913,"sku":"38224847","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/4464452-3462416.jpg?v=1761579175","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/es\/products\/pre-order-light-up-gold-cd","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}