To help deliver this vision of an emerging youth culture struggling to be heard amidst the rapid gentrification of the city, Luppi teamed up with New York band Parquet Courts and Yeah Yeah Yeah’s vocalist, Karen O, who features on several tracks. Instigated by Producer and Artist Daniele Luppi, MILANO is a concept album, complete with songs that are fictionalized stories about misfits, fashionistas, outcasts and junkies in mid-1980s Milan. MILANO is out now on Danger Mouse’s label, 30th Century Records, and was recently included in Rough Trade’s top 20 Albums Of The Year. The song features Yeah Yeah Yeahs vocalist Karen O, and is taken from Italian musician Daniele Luppi and New York band Parquet Courts’ MILANO – a collaborative concept album inspired by mid-1980s Milan and the misfits, fashionistas, outsiders and artists of the city. Watch it here:Ĭommissioned by Nowness, Pretty Prizes is directed by Barnaby Clay (TV On The Radio, Gnarls Barkley, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), stars French singer-songwriter, musician and actress, SoKo and is shot in Los Angeles. Nowness has today premiered the cinematic video for Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts Feat. MILANO AVAILABLE ON DANGER MOUSE’S 30TH CENTURY RECORDS/COLUMBIA RECORDS The combination of talents involved works in all of their favor, and the result is a short, snappy modern art-punk album that is a worthy addition to each act's already strong catalog.DANIELE LUPPI & PARQUET COURTS CONCEPT ALBUM MILANO FEATURING KAREN O OUT NOW The band even proves to be adept at backing some wildly oscillating jazz soloing on the instrumental "Café Flesh," which closes the album in a decadent whirl of sound. The bells on "Soul and Cigarette" and "Mount Napoleon," the wailing sax on the latter song, the accordion on "Memphis Blues Again," the buzzy synths on "Lanza" these are lightly applied additions to the band's sound that really open things up and give the songs some breathing room. As producer, he captures their shambling nature simply and powerfully as arranger, he adds subtle touches to the songs that give them some depth. It also makes one think that they should ask Luppi to produce their next album. She brings the snappy "Talisa" to life with some snarkily sneering vocals, struts like a haughty socialite on the skids on the disco-funky "Flush," yelps and snaps like bubblegum on "The Golden Ones," and duets smartly with Savage on the alternate-universe pop single "Pretty Prizes." It sounds good enough that one might wish she joined Parquet Courts full-time. The team fits together perfectly, with the Courts' rambling attack alternately loping and charging through the songs, the band's Andrew Savage laconically drawling out the typically dense and witty lyrics like a bored denizen of Milan's underground, and Karen O delivering some of her typically inspired vocals. Luppi also had the bright idea to bring Karen O on board to add her vocals (and lyrics) to many of the nine songs. It proved to be an inspired choice, as the band does a fine job bringing the writer's songs and vision to life on Milano. He landed on Parquet Courts, thinking that they embodied the seedy glamour and arty angles of the era. While working on a batch of songs about the alternative lifestyle scene of Milan in the 1980s, where and when he came of age, Italian composer and arranger Daniele Luppi decided he needed a working band to play his compositions and help write the words.
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