I relistened to Quasi's "Featuring "Birds"" the other day for the first time in a long while, and I was blown over by how good it was. I remembered it being good, but it's great, a perfect mix of chirpy indiepop melodies, nice thick guitar and keys instrumentation, and ultra-bleak lyrics. They toured for a bit as Elliot Smith's backing band, and there are aspects of that kind of sound in there, but there are also traces of the Pacific Northwest type of indie rock bands like Built to Spill (Sam Coomes can really play guitar, although he doesn't let loose that often).
This is one of the less gloomy songs on the record (which contains such bubblegum classics as "You Fucked Yourself" and "I Give Up"), imagining a futuristic society where we all live in bubbles under the sea, isolated from all emotion. Sort of like that bit in Star Wars: Episode 1 I suppose. Anyway, killer melody! This is how Northwestern indiepop is meant to sound.
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