Quasi / Mole City
Album: Mole City   Collection:General
Artist:Quasi   Added:Nov 2013
Label:Kill Rock Stars  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2013-11-07 Pull Date: 2014-01-09
Week Ending: Jan 12 Jan 5 Dec 29 Dec 15 Dec 8 Dec 1 Nov 24 Nov 17
Airplays: 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 5

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 26, 2016: Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
Headshrinker
4. Dec 26, 2013: Stringless Balloon Pt. 2
You Can Stay But You Gotta Go
2. Jan 07, 2014: late night dryer
Geraldine
5. Dec 25, 2013: Meow After Midnight
Bedbug Town
3. Jan 04, 2014: Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told To Hervey Okkles
You Can Stay But You Gotta Go
6. Dec 14, 2013: Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told To Hervey Okkles
Geraldine

Album Review
Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2013-11-07
FANTASTIC. From Portland, Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss (Sleater Kinney)'s [they were married until 1995] band with their eighth album in 20 years... scattershot (in a good way)-- every track sounds different. Noise/garage/countryrock/rock/folk/post-punk... it's a weird stew of it all. (It's his singing throughout, unless you see SHE SINGS)

A weird mix of stuff, you might want to sample it for yourself. But highly recommended. 2, 10, 13, 17 are the tops. FCC on 11.

1 (0:15) * Just a brief organ riff
2 (3:33) ****** Fuzzy, fuzzy guitar... so goddamned fuzzy. Midtempo, fun, singsongey. Great hooks, great wall of fuzz. Fade-out into harsh noise.
3 (3:07) *** Snotty, with piano chugging midway thru, into fun pop ballad, finally into weird chorus-line excess.
4 (3:02) *** uptempo chugging with country-rockish guitars, but shaggy garagey vox and atmosphere. Sudden collapse.
5 (1:05) * Spacey, bubbly, thereminny sounds for a minute.
6 (3:13) **** Mopey, sad, ominous Casio... "dum dum da dum" You like sad songs? Give this one a go.
7 (2:54) **** Thumping rocker, mid'60s Dylan (Buick 6ish) in tone... honkytonk piano, nice background chorus.... then noisy guitar jam. Sudden end.
8 (3:12) ** Heavy rocker, with weird spacey sound in a few places.
9 (2:04) *** SHE SINGS. Sweet folk song, with slightly fuzzy electric guitar. Think Elizabeth Cotten.
10 (4:35) **** Insistent post-punky piano and drums, lazy vox, with hi-pitched "head shrinker" backup vox, halfway thru, sweet and distorted guitars noodle for a while.
11 (3:24) (FCC: "fucking around") *** Shaggy country-western "I'll tear out your tongue..." SHE and he harmonize in chorus.
12 (3:28) * Dense piano rocker, not extremely memorable
13 (3:59) **** Noisy plinky space sounds, over meandering guitar solo. Heavy reverb on his vox (pained), slowish folky. Then vox is louder, fuzzier, and backup sweet vox.
14 (0:33) * Harshish noise, short.
15 (2:07) ** Punky guitar, uptempo and crazed...
16 (1:17) * Distorted hi pitched and post-punky singing, short.
17 (4:25) **** Slow and warped, sweet and sad (pained vox). Distorted guitars and sweet backup singers. Slow warp-out, for 30 seconds.
18 (0:44) *** A scream, and plunks, meowing and more. Just SFX. Short.
19 (2:20) *** Heavy plodding beat, "Here's to all the..." monologue. Then SHE and he sing, country rocky (Dr Dogish)
20 (0:54) * Ragtimey slide guitar strut with weirdo effects. Short.
21 (3:07) *** Plunky and pained, midtempo. Sweet.
22 (0:57) *** Fuzzy guitar and handclaps, short.
23 (5:54) *** Slow and chanty, with fuzzy and distorted weird sounds "Nestle Quik...Mickey Mouse"; then church organ. Heavy and slowish continuing on...
24 (1:09) * Distorted noodling, short.

Track Listing
1. *   13. Geraldine
2. You Can Stay But You Gotta Go   14. Loopy
3. See You On Mars   15. Double Deuce
4. Blasted   16. Gnot
5. Chrome Duck   17. Dust Of The Sun
6. Chumps Of Chance   18. Mole City
7. Fat Fanny Land   19. An Ice Cube In The Sun
8. Nostalgia Kills   20. One & Done
9. R.I.P.   21. The Dying Man
10. Headshrinker   22. Clap Trap
11. Bedbug Town   23. New Western Way
12. The Goat   24. Beyond The Return Of The Son Of Nowhere