Featuring "Birds"

Featuring "Birds"
Studio album by Quasi
Released April 21, 1998
Recorded December 1997 at Jackpot Studio, Portland, Oregon, United States
Genre Indie rock
Length 46:42
Label Up (US), Domino (UK)
Producer Joanna Bolme, Charlie Campbell, Sam Coomes, Larry Crane, Tony Lash, Dave Livingston, Chris Slusarenko, Elliott Smith, Chris Takino, Janet Weiss, Julie Weiss
Quasi chronology
R&B Transmogrification
(1997)R&B Transmogrification1997
Featuring "Birds"
(1998)
Field Studies
(1999)Field Studies1999

Featuring "Birds" is the third studio album by American indie rock band Quasi. It was released in 1998 by record label Up in the US and Domino in the UK.

Recording

Featuring "Birds" was recorded during December 1997 at Jackpot Studio in Portland, Oregon.

Release

Featuring "Birds" was released on April 21, 1998 by record label Up in the US and Domino in the UK.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Mojo[2]
NME8/10[3]
Pitchfork8.6/10[4]
Rolling Stone[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
Spin8/10[7]
The Village VoiceA−[8]

Featuring "Birds" has been well received by critics.

Sean Kennerly of Rolling Stone wrote: "[the album] hides gut-wrenching heartache and despair inside sugary vocal harmonies and catchy, succinct songwriting. [...] Bitterness has never sounded so sweet."[5]

Track listing

All tracks written by Sam Coomes, except "Tomorrow You'll Hide", written by Janet Weiss.

No.TitleLength
1."Our Happiness Is Guaranteed"3:15
2."I Never Want to See You Again"3:48
3."The Poisoned Well"2:08
4."The Happy Prole"1:42
5."Sea Shanty"4:08
6."It's Hard to Turn Me On"4:33
7."Nothing from Nothing"2:44
8."Tomorrow You'll Hide"2:20
9."California"2:04
10."You Fucked Yourself"2:36
11."Ape Self Prevails in Me Still"2:12
12."Please Do"2:58
13."I Give Up"2:54
14."Birds"1:21
15."Repetition"5:05
16."Only Success Can Fail Me Now"2:53

Personnel

References

  1. Rabid, Jack. "Featuring "Birds" – Quasi". AllMusic. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  2. Chick, Stevie (July 2016). "Two for joy". Mojo (272): 105.
  3. Empire, Kitty (September 22, 1998). "Quasi – Featuring Birds". NME. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  4. Richard-San, Mark. "Quasi: Featuring "Birds"". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on October 4, 1999. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Kennerly, Sean (April 6, 1998). "Quasi: Featuring "Birds"". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 12, 2007. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  6. Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 667–68. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  7. Lukas, Paul (July 1998). "Quasi: Featuring "Birds"". Spin. 14 (7): 129. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  8. Christgau, Robert (June 2, 1998). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
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