Chicago-based record company Touch and Go Records may have become one of the luckiest labels recently when it obtained Quasi.

The band, a two-piece outfit consisting of Sam Coomes (Elliott Smith) and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) has put the finishing touches on its brilliant sound with its latest.

Their voices match perfectly with one another, and although Coomes provides his voice more than Weiss, they both rise to occasion when necessary.

“A Case of No Way Out” is a loud, droning number which, if you listen carefully, contains an eerie and beautiful string pattern beneath the fuzz.

“The Curse of Having it All” lets Weiss drip out some low-key vocals with some decent range while “Seal The Deal” is a catchy song that marries a distorted bass line with an effective tickling of the ivories on an organ and features some solid percussion work. In the middle of the song, it breaks down and the guitar whines just like a classic Pixies tune, complete with suggestive and somewhat questionable lyrics.

A familiar trait among each of these tracks is the ability of Coomes and Weiss to begin a song with a somewhat upbeat pattern and combine it with lyrics that don’t match the songs mood - but they do it well.

Although a common sound persists among songs, each has its own flavor from the head bobbing and traditional riff of “Goblins & Trolls” to the movie-theme introduction of “F--- Hollywood.”

The final track, “Rock & Roll Can Never Die” sounds like R2-D2 from “Star Wars” having a seizure at a Rolling Stones concert, with a lone horn player cranking out some western rhythms in the background.

But like many bands of this caliber, it sometimes repeats its creative ingeniousness too often.

Aside from the fact that it can pull it off, it uses what seems like the same piano rhythm too often.

But as a package Weiss and Coomes sound tight and have made a huge step in establishing its sound since its 1996 record, “Early Recordings.”