For the past 20 years, Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss have made passionate, raucous music in Quasi. In the beginning, their partnership was marital as well as musical, but it continued past their divorce and concurrent with their work in other bands: Coomes in Heatmiser with Elliott Smith when Quasi began, and later as a guest with Built To Spill; Weiss as a member of Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks and Wild Flag. Mole City (Kill Rock Stars) is a culmination of Quasi’s many strengths: its oversaturated and distorted sound, its singsong and shouted melodies, its controlled abandon. Coomes will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Quasi feature.
Coomes: All psychedelics have essentially similar effects, but they vary pretty widely in intensity, duration, personality, availability and legality, so it doesn’t make sense to make too many blanket statements. It’s also probably stupid to get too evangelical about them. But in any case, psychedelics are a very underused and very powerful tool for mental/emotional/psychic progress on an individual and social level, if used in a proper and purposeful way. In a more enlightened future people will look back on our current attitude toward psychedelics with a chuckle and a shaking head.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLWfQxqiydc
