Parquet Courts cover Pretty Girls by Joey Pizza Slice (Son of Salami) on the split 7″ currently up for pre-order at www.wharfcatrecords.com.
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Wharf Cat Records is excited to announce this split release by two of our very favorite artists, Parquet Courts and Joey Pizza Slice. Each one has long admired the other’s catalog through various incarnations and releases. Now they get a chance to cover one another’s songs. On the A Side Joey Pizza Slice (AKA Son of Salami) gives tribute to the angular guitar churn of the Parquet Courts’ ‘Picture of Health,’ filling the vocals with helium and letting them loose like balloons into a hazy summer sky. On the flip the Parquet Courts turn Joey’s synth pop masterpiece, ‘Pretty Girls,’ into the perfect summer jam that will get you stoked about cloudy days and being ignored all the time – it’s just a matter of perspective after all! This is a balanced and involving 7″ comprised of 2 tracks sure to help keep you cool well into the dog days.
Parquet Courts cover Joey Pizza Slice’s “Pretty Girls is a Motherfucker.” I know what you’re thinking: “What the hell is a Joey Pizza Slice?” Well, this is Joey Pizza Slice. Maybe not the hidden musical gem you were hoping for, but Parquet Courts chose a great song to cover here. I mean, the song topic itself fits the band’s usual sense of humor perfectly. The fit it so snug one might assume the Courts themselves had written it, but the band does right by Joey via a shoutout in the second half of the song. Those Parquet Courts are always a class act!
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