Parquet Courts have been teasing us for a while with their single Sunbathing Animals. The first glimpse was released as sheet music, with rumors a 7″ to be released on April 19th in celebration of Record Store Day.
For those who are not so musically inclined you are in luck! The video of Sunbathing Animals, directed by Andy Capper is being released today, via Noisey.
Sunbathing Animals is what seems to be a very simple black and white video, running just shy of four minutes. The focus being on Andrew Savage’s (singer/guitarist) cat named Frida. While sitting and watching this two-year old cat dance throughout the living room you are overcome with a great feeling of suspense while you wait for the twist. It is not until you get about 2 minutes in that you realize that there is beauty in the simplicity of watching life pass by and that the only twist is that you are missing it. The videos end result is simple, pure and quite refreshing. Savage discussed the some of the “studio magic” in an interview with Noisey.
“Every afternoon [Frida] takes a nap in that spot, but that afternoon she knew she was being observed. So I created a special tea that I found on a cat lady website that was full of herbs that could allegedly make a cat sleepy. You got some valerian root, some poppy seed extract, skullflower caps, chamomile…. I gave that to her and she was kinda being a bit more chill but she was still moving around a bit too much. And I guess we basically made the sofa area of my apartment into a cat paradise in order to get her to perform. We had bird songs playing on the iPhone, the window was open for bird noises outside. We put some food on the couch and then finally some cat nip.”
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The band will be on tour starting May. We will see you in San Francisco!!!
For more information about Parquet Courts, and to get the full version of the sheet music, visit them at http://sunbathinganimal.com/
PARQUET COURTS TOUR DATES:
Thu. May 22 – Calgary, AB @ Commonwealth Bar
Fri. May 23 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir w/ Naomi Punk
Sat. May 24 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret w/ Naomi Punk
Sun. May 25 – George, WA @ Sasquatch Music Festival
Tue. May 27 – San Francisco, CA @ Independent w/ CCR Headcleaner
Wed. May 28 – Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy
Thu. May 29 – Austin, TX @ Red 7 w/ Radioactivity
Mon. June 2 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s w/ Radioactivity
Tue. June 3 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada w/ Swearin’
Wed. June 4 – Memphis, TN @ The Hi-Tone w/ Protomartyr, True Sons of Thunder
Fri. June 6 – Columbus, OH @ Double Happiness w/ Protomartyr
Sat. June 7 – Detroit, MI @ PJ’s Lager House w/ Protomartyr, Tyvek
Sun. June 8 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern w/ Protomartyr, Tyvek
Mon. June 9 – Montreal, QC @ Il Motore w/ Protomartyr, Tyvek
Tue. June 10 – Boston, MA @ TT the Bears w/ Protomartyr
Wed. June 11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Sugarhill Supper Club w/ Protomartyr, Future Punx, Xerox
Fri. June 21 – Glasgow, UK @ SWG3
Sat. June 22 – Liverpool, UK @ Kazimier
Sun. June 23 – Birmingham, UK @ Birmingham Institute
Tue. June 25 – London, UK @ ULU
Wed. June 26 – Oxford, UK @ Oxford Academy 2
Sun. June 29 – Marmande, FR @ Garorock
Sun. July 6 – Rotselaar, BE @ Rock Werchter
Mon. July 7 – Groningen, NE @ Vera Project
Tue. July 8 – Paris, FR @ Le Divan Du Monde
Wed. July 9 – La Rochelle, FR @ La Sirene Club
Thu. July 10 – Bilbao, SP @ Bilbao BBK
Fri. July 11 – Lisbon, PO @ Alive Festival
Sat. July 12 – Russelheim, DE @ Phono Pop
Wed. July 16 – Berlin, DE @ Cassiopaia
Thu. July 17 – Grafenhainichen, DE @ Melt
Fri. July 18 – Dublin, IE @ Longitude Festival
Sun. July 20 – Suffolk, UK @ Latitude Festival
Fri. July 25 – Niigata, JP @ Naeba Ski Resort (Fuji Rock Festival)
Sat. Aug. 2 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
Sun. Aug. 3 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon