Portland-based duo Quasi are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year by delivering a new album titled Mole City. The record arrives October 1 in North America through Kill Rock Stars on CD and double-LP, but will be issued by Domino overseas.
The 24-song set follows 2010's American Gong and brings the band back down to its core duo of drummer Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney, Wild Flag) and guitarist/keyboardist Sam Coomes (Elliott Smith, Heatmiser) following a stretch with bassist Joanna Bolme. Not much has been revealed about the creation of the song cycle just yet, but you can sample fuzzed-out new tune "You Can Stay But You Got To Go" over on Pitchfork, and check out snippets from the rest of the set in the especially random, cut-and-paste-style album trailer down below.
Pre-orders for the set are already being taken over here and will come with a three-song CD-R of Quasi "covering three of their favourite songs!" While you can order the CD or double-LP editions on their own, you can also buy pre-order packages that come with a zine documenting Quasi's 20 years as a band, a T-shirt, and the promise of getting a voice mail message from the band members sometime in the future.
Mole City:
1. *
2. You Can Stay But You Got to Go
3. See You on Mars
4. Blasted
5. Chrome Duck
6. Chumps of Chance
7. Fat Fanny Land
8. Nostalgia Kills
9. R.I.P.
10. Headshrinker
11. Bedbug Town
12. The Goat
13. Geraldine
14. Loopy
15. Double Deuce
16. Gnot
17. Dust of the Sun
18. Mole City
19. An Ice Cube in the Sun
20. One and Done
21. The Dying Man
22. Clap Trap
23. New Western Way
24. Beyond the Return of the Sun of Nowhere
The 24-song set follows 2010's American Gong and brings the band back down to its core duo of drummer Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney, Wild Flag) and guitarist/keyboardist Sam Coomes (Elliott Smith, Heatmiser) following a stretch with bassist Joanna Bolme. Not much has been revealed about the creation of the song cycle just yet, but you can sample fuzzed-out new tune "You Can Stay But You Got To Go" over on Pitchfork, and check out snippets from the rest of the set in the especially random, cut-and-paste-style album trailer down below.
Pre-orders for the set are already being taken over here and will come with a three-song CD-R of Quasi "covering three of their favourite songs!" While you can order the CD or double-LP editions on their own, you can also buy pre-order packages that come with a zine documenting Quasi's 20 years as a band, a T-shirt, and the promise of getting a voice mail message from the band members sometime in the future.
Mole City:
1. *
2. You Can Stay But You Got to Go
3. See You on Mars
4. Blasted
5. Chrome Duck
6. Chumps of Chance
7. Fat Fanny Land
8. Nostalgia Kills
9. R.I.P.
10. Headshrinker
11. Bedbug Town
12. The Goat
13. Geraldine
14. Loopy
15. Double Deuce
16. Gnot
17. Dust of the Sun
18. Mole City
19. An Ice Cube in the Sun
20. One and Done
21. The Dying Man
22. Clap Trap
23. New Western Way
24. Beyond the Return of the Sun of Nowhere
