Evolution is all about survival, and survival (in evolution) is all about the food chain. Quasi play songs about survival. Emotional survival, the emotional food chain.
Quasi make sad music. Music about love, about human nature, about love and human nature. Music that is both heartfelt and coldly clinical at the same time.
Science is the same way -- heartfelt in that it takes passion, a desire to figure shit out, to pursue it. Clinical because, well, it's science.
The food chain places each and every animal in a specific role. Within that role, each animal is a sort of drone -- Nature's peons. Quasi's songs are about just that.
In a relationship, one person is always the drone.
Quasi's songs are about how we devour one another. How love, or even the idea of love, is all about survival. The rodent on the cover of Field Studies is devouring the snake in order to survive. Eventually, another animal will devour the rodent.
We fall in love (or convince ourselves we are in love) so we won't be alone, to help us survive. Eventually, we break the other person's heart, and eventually another person will break ours.
Or maybe I'm just over-analyzing everything. But then again, that's what science (and love songs) are about. -- BRADLEY STEINBACHER
