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Quasi announce first album in a decade with lead cut "Queen of Ears"

25 October 2022, 15:07 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

Quasi, aka Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss, have announced their debut album for Sub Pop and first in a decade, Breaking The Balls Of History, and have shared new single "Queen of Ears" to accompany the news.

"Queen of Ears" is the duo's first new music since sharing a quarantine demo in 2020 titled "Rotten Wrock" (the finished version will appear on the new album), and arrives with a Patrick Stanton-directed video.

Breaking The Balls Of History will follow Quasi's 2013 album Mole City, and was produced by the duo alongside John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill) at Rob Lang Studios in Seattle.

Weiss says of working on the record, "It felt so life-affirming. I can hear in the music how happy I am to be there and to be playing at that level again. I get to exist."

Tracklist:

  1. Last Long Laugh
  2. Back in Your Tree
  3. Queen of Ears
  4. Gravity
  5. Shitty Is Pretty
  6. Riots & Jokes
  7. Breaking the Balls of History
  8. Doomscrollers
  9. Inbetweenness
  10. Nowheresville
  11. Rotten Wrock
  12. The Losers Win

"Queen of Ears" is out now. Quasi's Breaking The Balls Of History album will arrive via Sub Pop on 10 February 2023, and is available to pre-order now.

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