Quasi

On listening to When the Going Gets Dark (2006) for the first time, I was again sorta puzzled as to why Quasi isn't like, I dunno, bigger than Radiohead.

Then I remembered: they're old! Older than me, even!

Seriously, I'm glad I never heard this record before today, because I doubt I could have been ready for it. So many dark moments abutting McCartney-esque pop ones...plus they can really play. Normally I abominate anything that could be seen as vaguely proggy [see nearly every other post herein for proof!], but these kids do weird-instrumental passages about one hundred times better than the first-beard contingent like, I dunno, Blitzen Trapper or whomever is on the Pitchfork tines any given day. Plus shiny choruses abound. Wow.