Parquet Courts made a name for themselves as the snotty but talented punk quartet who turned heads with their 2013 breakthrough album Light Up Gold, and two years on, they still sound miffed. Packed with three-minute songs characterised by fast-paced, twitchy garage rock and introverted lyrics from Austin Brown and Andrew Savage, Sunbathing Animal presents a litany of marginalised characters scribbling in Moleskines (Dear Ramona) and struggling to cope with smalltown myopia (Black and White). It's a world that starts to feel repetitive after a while; and so when they do try something different, it pays off: Always Back in Town shoves you in the chest and breaks the malaise halfway through the record, while the palate-cleansing minute-long instrumental Up All Night is followed by the meandering, seven-minute Instant Disassembly – even if they do revert to type as the album draws to a close.