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No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (2011)

Cheer-Accident

CHEER-ACCIDENT’s 17th!  This one rocks.  And it pops.  It even hops!
Yes, the second track (“Trial Of Error”) could very well be the birth of a brand
new subgenre, one that will surely never quite catch on:  Mid-Hop.  This song
serves as a microcosm of the album as a whole, which is to say it’s got a little
bit of everything:  skewed-yet-danceable grooves, catchy melodies, layered
progressive rock density, and meticulously-sculpted guitar and synthesizer
textures.

Undoubtedly, the newest and shiniest feature of this recording is the debut
of singer Carmen Armillas, whose sensuous vocals invite the listener to bathe
in every nuance of these seductive melodies.  And she’s right there on the
first tune, “Drag You Down,” fully inhabiting the song in all of its twists and
turns.

A facile way of describing this latest offering from CHEER-ACCIDENT would
be this:  If Fear Draws Misfortune was prog with pop elements, then
No Ifs, Ands or Dogs is pop with prog elements. But that tidy description
falls woefully short of doing the music justice, for the years roll on, words
become impotent, and CHEER-ACCIDENT employs increasingly powerful
forms of insidiousness toward its navigation of a vast musical terrain.
Now more than ever, you’ll just have to listen to it…

CD – $15.00 USA

CD – $18.00 Overseas

Listen to a clip of Sleep from No Ifs, Ands or Dogs.

Fear Draws Misfortune (2009)

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After decades of looking longingly at each other, CHEER-ACCIDENT and
Cuneiform Records finally decided to consummate the relationship with
this CD.  C-A’s 16th full-length release delivers on every promise that
a convergence such as this might suggest:  finely-honed and intricate
compositional inventiveness, an intelligent blending of “rock” with
“non-rock” instrumentation, and an obstinate refusal to be anything
but themselves.

The music contained on Fear Draws Misfortune is simultaneously
sensitive and courageous, qualities that one would hope could live side
by side via the shared wisdom that results from a band who has persevered
through decades of thick and thin.

CD – $15.00 USA

CD – $18.00 Overseas

Listen to a clip of Sun Dies from Fear Draws Misfortune.

 

 

What Sequel? (2007)

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The long-awaited (by whom?) followup to 1994′s seminal The Why Album. Just as long on tunefulness and even longer on ambition than its predecessor, this collection of pop gems is a satisfying listen both for folks who like a catchy tune and those who crave a bit more compositional intricacy.

CD – $12.00 USA

CD – $15.00 Overseas

 

Variations On A Goddamn Old Man (2008)

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Third in the series. We’ve established a pattern here. (Every three years…) This one is very much the sister Old Man to the 2005 release. Sister Old Man? Does that even make sense? Much tunefulness here as euphoria and melancholia seem to be battling it out.

CD – $12.00 USA

CD – $15.00 Overseas

 

 

Variations On A Goddamn Old Man (2005)

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The second in the series. This one is definitely a bit more “produced” than the first one, with the focus still being on mood, texture, and grooves. Is this Krautrock via the tape-saturated “There’s A Riot Goin’ On” while trying to find Robert Wyatt? And is that how one arrives at This Heat’s doorstep?

CD – $12.00 USA

CD – $15.00 Overseas

 

 

 

Variations On A Goddamn Old Man (2002)

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The first in a series. Homemade songs interspersed with lots of moodinesss and joyful group chants.

CD – $12.00 USA

CD – $15.00 Overseas

 

 

Salad Days (2000)

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It’s the post-premature graphic depression with its frail falsetto forever unforewarning while unforeseeing the dissonance of density and rhythmic perplexity foreshadowing the resultant insomnia that amnesia forgot to Charles I’ves got to tell ya:  THESE ARE THE SALAD DAYS!

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CD – $15.00 Overseas

 

 

Not A Food (1996)

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In case you were missing some of the CHEER-ACCIDENT dissonance, distortion, and daredevil rhythmic ideas (no doubt OD-ing on the melodicism of The Why Album) this is their Rock Update. Comparable to their (until recently) long out of print (unless you count the Neat Metal version, which doesn’t count) Dumb Ask CD in terms of its aggression, but with a much richer sonic palette. Adeptly engineered by Steve Albini.

CD – $12.00 USA

CD – $15.00 Overseas

 

 

The Why Album (1994)

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Babies Shouldn’t Smoke (1993)

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Dissonant, dark, abrasive, impossibly rhythmic with (un)healthy doses of mental illness at every turn. This is CHEER-ACCIDENT’s third release and is a perfectly unsettling blend of Chicago sludge and European noise rock. Worth the price for the full-color packaging alone, which features the beautiful and disturbed work of Chicago Artist Linda Wiley.

CD – $12.00 USA

CD – $15.00 Overseas

 

 

 

Dumb Ask (1991)

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This is CHEER-ACCIDENT at their most stripped-down and aggressive. Recorded in November ‘89 (in Steve Albini’s charmed basement studio) before Nirvana’s Nevermind and Slint’s Spiderland, Dumb Ask serves as a vital historical document placing CHEER-ACCIDENT in a sort of “alternative to the alternative” parallel universe which existed concurrently to the more “above ground” bands of the early ‘90’s.

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CD – $15.00 Overseas

 

 

 

Younger Than You Are Now (2004)

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Also known as CHEER-ACCIDENT ‘81-’84, as that is when all of these recordings took place. Yes, those were the formative years… In other words: We were in (and/or just out of) high school when we made this stuff, so give us a break!

CD – $12.00 USA

CD – $15.00 Overseas