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: The best double albums are the best albums, period: Exile On Main Street, Physical Graffiti, Zen Arcade, Basement Tapes, Double Nickels On The Dime, Second Edition (well, Metal Box is maybe not strictly a double LP, but who cares), Tago Mago, Trout Mask Replica … certainly I’m forgetting some, but you get the point.
