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The Quit
Minus Tide
Tindrum Records
Filled with slinky rhythms and sneaky pop melodies, The Quit's Minus Tide is one of the most unsuspecting and satisfying debuts to come along in a while. Bringing to mind the furtive hooks of The Feelies, this Seattle quartet's greatest strength is that they're in no hurry to hit you over the head with big crunchy choruses and opt instead for the kind of subtle pop hooks that creep up out of nowhere and last forever. In other words: these are the ones that last. "There's a song/I'm trying to find on the radio," sings frontman Scott Shoemaker in a line that may not overtly be about craft or pedagogy, but inadvertently evinces the band's own willingness to wait a song out and let its charms show up unrushed. Produced by Scott Colburn (Arcade Fire, Animal Collective), Minus Tide is loaded with intelligence and nuance. "Manchester" is a punchy pop travelogue; the jazzy "Faster" brings to mind the perkiness of Vampire Weekend and the slow grind of "Seven" reaches a big crescendo that ends with a fading twilight of a riff. Elsewhere, the swirling rocker "This Time" is the most sonically aggressive number on the album; "Dark Days" is a perfect slice of rootsy indie rock and the closer "Mis-En-Scene" begs repeated listens.
—Alex Green
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