If you're looking for a leftfield recommendation to give friends at the upcoming Laneway festival, try Parquet Courts on for size.
The Brooklyn-based garage-rockers craft slacker anthems for the ages - and judging by their debut album Light Up Gold, they could be the unlikely festival hit of the day.
"I was reading ingredients, asking myself 'Should I eat this?'" mumbles front man Andrew Savage on their breakout hit Stoned and Starving, a stunner that rightly earned the band comparisons to Youth & Young Manhood-era Kings of Leon, or a rough and ready Strokes.
Savage delivers line after line of searing irony: "I was up to my neck in motivation neglect" he moans on straightforward shooter Borrowed Time, while the screaming riffage of Donuts Only contains the brilliant line: "As for Texas: donuts only - you cannot find bagels here."
Don't be put off by their seemingly laid back attitude and the rugged production - Savage's tales of stoner life are backed by intricate time signatures and some electrified riffage.
