New York rock band Parquet Courts shared a new single “Black Widow Spider” accompanied by a video. The new track is from their forthcoming album Sympathy For Life that is out 22nd of October and can be pre-ordered here.
The new album “finds the Brooklyn band at both their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling into fresh territory, yet maintaining their unique identity“.
Following their latest release “Walking At A Downtown Pace”, the new single starts off with a scorching guitar. Vocalist Andrew Savage commented in a press: “I told [producer] Rodaidh McDonald that I wanted to find a sound that was equal parts Can, Canned Heat and This Heat. He was really into that and probably took some glee in having such a bizarre challenge“.
It’s one of many songs from the upcoming album that was improvised into a tape, edited and cut, leading to the verse.
The video for “Black Widow Spider” has been directed and animated by Shayne Ehman. “We were inspired by the claymation master Art Clokey. I wanted the video to feel like it was shot in the 1950’s and so I used very old lenses. One was a brass projection lens from the 1860’s and another was radioactive” explained Ehman. Watch the video below.
The band also announced surprising events called ‘Power of Eleven’, an eleven global shows that will occur around the album release. More info about the shows and locations you can find here.
Parquet Courts touring in the USA at the moment and next year will head over Europe and UK. Tickets to the tour are available to purchase here.
See EU/UK tour dates for 2022 below:
21/05/2022 – La Trianon – Paris, FR
22/05 – Trix – Antwerp, BE
24/05 – Stollwerck – Cologne, DE
25/05 – Heimathafen Neukölln – Berlin, DE
27/05 – Uebel & Gefährlich – Hamburg, DE
28/05 – Doornroosje – Nijmegen, NL
30/05 – Paradiso – Amsterdam, NL
31/05 – Le Grand Mix – Lille, FR
01/06 – Epicerie Moderne – Lyon, FR
03/06 – Primavera Sound – Barcelona, ES
08/06 – Chalk – Brighton, UK
09/06 – Brixton O2 Academy – London, UK
11/06 – Helix – Dublin, IE
12/06 – Albert Hall – Manchester, UK
13/06 – Stylus – Leeds, UK
15/06 – The Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow, UK
16/06 – O2 Institute -Birmingham, UK
Photo Credit: Press/ Pooneh Ghana
