In some ways (mainly musical), Several Songs About Fire - the second solo LP from Parquet Courts' A Savage - is unremarkable. But he then he'll slyly pull a lyrical gem out of the bag and hook you in - whether facing up to himself on 'Hurtin' Or Healed' ("Hollow-faced stranger / Just who might you be? / In the mirror, someone's crying / With the same eyes as me"), bedazzled by another ("Silence is golden / But nothing quite roars / Like a sunset reflected / In those wild eyes of yours") or opening 'Le Grande Balloon' with the arresting line "My stinkin' lies and I were tracked down by a bear".
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