“With two chords and two chords only, "Stoned and Starving" refracts the choppy sound of 1970s post-punk bands like Wire through the drone-rock of Yo La Tengo, a combination of punk vigor and slacker looseness that makes Parquet Courts' Light Up Gold a worthwhile genetic mutation. But where Wire feared the shadowy giants of government, war and madness, Parquet Courts are tied to terrestrial concern”
