The New York punk-rawk quartet Parquet Courts has risen through the DIY ranks on the back of a quartet of albums released over the past four years. Overstuffed with too many catchy and laconic choruses in the past, the band’s debut EP for Rough Trade goes the almost natural route of total implosion into music, filled with fun self-sabotage and almost no vocals at all. The 33-minute Monastic Living mini-album brims with noise-squonk sessions (“Frog Pond Plop,” “Elegy of Colonial Suffering”), jam experiments (“Monastic Living I,”  “Monastic Living II”) and fragments that soar with compact Brian Eno-like fuzz ecstasy and seem ready for punchlines (“Poverty and Obedience”). All of the pieces are quite good fun, especially the joyous Yo La Tengo-like organ/guitar break-out “Vow Of Silence.” But mostly the project plays like an attempt to not get stuck in any one place (see also: “He’s Seeing Paths” from the Tally All the Things That You Broke EP, lo-fi hip-hop that recalls Mellow Gold-era Beck), and the band succeeds admirably. Though kicking off in song mode (“No, No, No!”), Monastic Living is a fun diversion, neither an entry point nor an arrival.