Quits Released New Album “Feeling It”; Check Out Video For “Abandoned Myths”

Sleeping Giant Glossolalia presents Feeling It, the new album by Denver band Quits.

The follow-up to Quits’ 2017 self-titled debut, Feeling It is out now.

As displayed on “Abandoned Myths,” Quits’ sound dances on a knife-edge between anxious twang and epic wallop. Desperate vocals bear a resemblance to the wails of Justin Pearson or Chris Thomson, while dueling guitars, distorted bass, and scrappy drumming push the intensity into the red. The passion is palpable. BrooklynVegan has defined Quits aptly as “a crushing, attitude-filled blend of noise rock and post-hardcore.” New Noise Magazine has described it with these words: “Angular, jagged guitars share space with pummeling drums and bulldozing bass, while impassioned, gritty vocals float on top.” It is a frequency familiar to fans of bands like Drive Like Jehu, Metz, Circus Lupus, and Deaf Club, yet Quits is its own band with its own message.

Guitarist/vocalist Lucius Fairchild says the new album, Feeling It, is about trying to find one’s center in the wake of the pandemic, covering such topics as “police misconduct, mass shootings, addiction, isolation.” He describes the current state of his hometown of Denver, where runaway gentrification and abject poverty are colliding: “We adapt. It’s expensive. It’s no longer strange to see eight cranes on one street. Development has not slowed down. The homeless crisis is also booming. Watching people walk through the tent city on their block to enter their $5,000 apartment. The contrast is interesting.”

While some lineup changes have occurred in the turbulence of recent years – bassist Neil Keener (Planes Mistaken for Stars, Wovenhand) was replaced by Cyrena Rosati, who was then replaced by Justin Ankenbauer – 2023 finds Quits to be thriving. In the face of tough circumstances, Quits stands as a pillar of Denver’s scene, alongside other Mile High artists such as Endless, Nameless and Moon Pussy, and the band has just delivered its greatest work so far, in the form of Feeling It.