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Wide Awake! is the sixth studio album by American indie rock band Parquet Courts, released on May 18, 2018 on Rough Trade Records.
The album was preceded by the singles "Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience", "Wide Awake", and "Mardi Gras Beads", and succeeded by the single "Total Football".




Background


The album was first announced in February 2018 and recorded from December 2017 to January 2018 at Sonic Ranch studios outside Tornillo, Texas. The band recruited Danger Mouse to produce the album, as the band claimed, as a way to push themselves outside of their comfort zone. On recruiting Danger Mouse for the album, Andrew Savage said, "I was writing a record that indebted to punk and funk, and Brian's a pop producer who's made some very polished records. I liked that it didn’t make sense."
In an interview with Billboard, Andrew Savage described the album having a funk influence, saying, "there's this duality between joy and anger that I find to be really interesting, and that's something the record kind of deals with at large. ... [H]ardcore could be such an angry music form but could make you feel so positive. There's a lot of moments on the record when all of us are singing at the same time and... that's something I kind of associate with hardcore, or Funkadelic."




Critical reception



Wide Awake! received critical acclaim upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 82, based on 28 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". In a five-star review, Emma Swan of DIY called the album, "a gut-punch of an immediate classic". Writing for Exclaim! magazine, Vish Kanna said that Wide Awake! "is a letter-perfect musical contemplation of modern times, where social uprisings are actually affecting positive change. It's urgent and potent music that's thought-provoking and danceable, and whose rage is measured by a pointed optimism." Roy Trakin, in a rave review for Variety, praised the album for its social conscience in its day and age, stating it "may be the most woke punk-rock record since the heyday of the Clash."
In a more mixed review, Chris Nelson of Mojo wrote that "unsurprisingly, it flies the Wire and Minutemen flags high. More surprising are the occasional nods to funk and '60s bubblegum."
Wide Awake! was named 'album of the year' in an end-of-year list by Australian radio station Double J and the second-best album of 2018 by Paste.




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Track listing






Personnel






= Parquet Courts

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Austin Brown – guitar, vocals, keyboards on "Death Will Bring Change," "Back to Earth," and "Mardi Gras Beads"
A. Savage – guitar, vocals, keyboards on "Violence," "Freebird II," "Before the Water Gets Too High"
Max Savage – percussion, vocals, synthesizer on "Total Football" and "Normalization"
Sean Yeaton – bass, vocals




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Charts






References






External links


Wide Awake Archived 2018-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at Rough Trade
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Wide Awake or Wideawake may refer to:




Places


Wide Awake, South Carolina, US
Prestonville, Kentucky, US, formerly Wideawake
Wideawake Airfield or RAF Ascension Island, a British military base




Books and publications


Wide Awake (magazine), a children's magazine 1875–1893
Wide Awake (novel), a 2006 novel by David Levithan
Project Wideawake, a fictional US government program in the Marvel Comics universe
Wide Awake, a Christian student publication, notable for Rosenberger v. University of Virginia




Film


Wide Awake (1998 film), an American film by M. Night Shyamalan
Wide Awake (2007 film), a South Korean film




Music


Wideawake, an American alternative rock band




= Albums

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Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album) or the title song, 1995
Wide Awake (Joe McElderry album) or the title song, 2010
Wide Awake (Parachute album), 2016
Wide Awake (Sonny Fodera album), 2021
Wide Awake!, by Parquet Courts, or the title song, 2018
Wide Awake, by Michael Schulte, 2012
Wide Awake, by Picture Me Broken, 2010




= Songs

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"Wide Awake" (Eric Saade song), 2016
"Wide Awake" (Katy Perry song), 2012
"Wide Awake", by Audioslave from Revelations, 2006
"Wide Awake", by Autopilot Off from Autopilot Off, 2002
"Wide Awake", by Gravity Kills from Superstarved, 2002
"Wide Awake", by Kenna from Make Sure They See My Face, 2007
"Wide Awake", by Lacuna Coil from Shallow Life, 2009
"Wide Awake", by Man Overboard from Heart Attack, 2013
"Wide Awake", by Petit Biscuit, 2019
"Wide Awake", by the Twang from Love It When I Feel Like This, 2007




Other uses


Wide Awakes, a 19th-century American political organization
Wideawake hat, a broad-brimmed felt hat
Sooty tern or wideawake, a tropical seabird

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