“The thing about making a record that everybody loves is that your next album, however stylistically different or experimental, will inevitably be compared to it. So, let's just get this out of the way: Quasi's latest, *Field Studies*, is not as good as last year's critics' darling, *Featuring "Birds."* That album clothed frontman Sam Coomes' utterly bleak worldview in bouncy, cheery pop that made ”
