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Now that we are roughly half-way through 2018, it's time to reflect on the songs that have impacted us this year. Like any year, there have been great some great songs and flat out terrible songs, but we're going to try and forget about those discrepancies and focus solely on the good ones. So without further ado, here are five songs that have thus far been this year's best. 5. Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience - Parquet Courts Punk's not dead. Parquet Courts is a super interesting and creative quartet that continually doesn't give a fuck about being popular or to commercially successful, rather the foursome often releases music that focuses on meaning be it instrumentally or lyrically in a manner that is raw, digestible and spelled out. "Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience," and Wide Awake!   in general, is a continuation of Parquet Court's leitmotif of straight forwardness and is an amalgamation of fiery f...

With  Parquet Courts ' sixth studio album, Wide Awake! , scheduled to release   on May 18th, the foursome has decided to drop their first single, "Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience," and it's a fiery punch to the gut. When I saw Parquet Courts at the Grog Shop  back in November not only was it a banger but we were blessed to get a first-listen to "Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience," and shortly after the show I was scouring the internet to see if it leaked anywhere because holy shit.  Andrew Savage's fiesty and throat-bleeding vocals, the sharp and aggressive riffs and pounding beat clenches the muscles in your body like you're about to get into a fight. Like any good punk rock song it's raw without any real notion of polished production. That's not to say it sounds sloppy and is just a mindless head-banger. The transitioning deep echo of the drums in particular are fantastic, but what is really c...