1 LP – Indie only LOSER coloured vinyl
“Breaking The Balls Of History” is Quasi’s tenth record, landing ten years after their last record. Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss have become Pacific Northwest icons, and Quasi has always felt so steadfast – their enduring friendship so generative, their energy infinite, each album more raucous and catchy and ferocious and funny than the last.
For a while, they thought 2013’s intricate “Mole City” might be their last record. They’d go out on a great one and move on. Then in August 2019 a car smashed into Janet’s and broke both legs and her collarbone. Then a deadly virus collided with all of us, and no one knew when or if live music as we knew it would ever happen again.
Each afternoon, Sam and Janet bunkered down in their tiny practice space and channeled the bewilderment and absurdity of this alien new world into songs. Janet’s strength returned and rose to athlete-level stamina. The incredible result of those sessions is “Breaking The Balls Of History”.
Janet’s galloping drums and Sam’s punk-symphonic Rocksichord and their intertwining vocals make something gigantic, anthemic. They’ve crafted exquisitely melodic songs that glitter with rage and wild humour and intelligence, driven by a big bruised pounding heart.