Description
* "Cheer-Accident are the quintessential Chicago post-rock band... a pronounced influence on the Windy City's art-rock scene." - Pitchfork * "Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser of an album... " - Time Out New York * Over the past four decades as staples of Chicago's indie scene, CHEER-ACCIDENT [always capitalized and always with a hyphen] have performed hundreds of shows all over the USA and Europe and have released dozens of albums. * They have gained a reputation as a band known for it's capacity for the unexpected. They are remembered for appearing on television and playing one note for an hour. Or playing their piece 'Filet of Nod' in a park in Chicago for over 8 hours (highlights are on YouTube) * While they have always been a band with a 'floating membership', the last few years have seen the band very impressively touring with a expanded line-up of between 7-10 members. * This set includes their new studio album [their 27th] and two live concerts from 2022 and 2023 [with that expanded personnel] on the group's first-ever DVD [also their first-ever live release]. namored with the way albums from the late '60s-early '70s were written and recorded, where the band would hole up in some remote farmhouse in the country and crank out a masterpiece. We finally took the plunge and ensconced ourselves in beautiful Northern Spain for two weeks in July 2024. * Disc Two: Yet more nostalgia... also been wanting to record a covers record for some time and worked out the following criteria: (1) deep-cut rock music from my sweet spot, the aforementioned '60s-early '70s and (2) tunes with instrumental sections that could be argued as to be "progressive" in nature, in most cases songs that were a little outside the more well-known pop tunes those artists were known for. Songs featured include deep tracks from Iron Butterfly, Kinks, Mountain, Spirit, Procolo Harum, Traffic, Steppenwolf, The Guess Who, James Gang and more.
Tracklist:
- CD: Episode 34
- Behind Your Smile
- They Won't Talk To Me
- The Next Fog
- Incoming Angles
- Tin Pan Galaxy
- Moon Homecoming
- Graffiti Eyes
- The Blue Lie
- Absence Moving Backwards
- Epilogue
- DVD: [show #1 : 2022] Career Discussion
- Progress
- Learning How To Fly
- Introduction
- Drag You Down
- Guest Foreshadowing
- Doing/Not Doing
- Josh Saves The Day
- Keep In Touch (nearly)
- Keep In Touch
- Ice Cream and Lies
- Humanizing the Distance
- Closer
- Les Vandales de Paris
- Surviving A Methodology
- Salad Days
- Even Has a Half Life
- Post-Live Improv I
- Post-Life Improv II
- Post-Life Improv III
- Post-Life Improv IV
- Post-Life Improv V
- An Honest Question]
- [show #2 : 2023] Heaven
- Everyone's Ugly Up Close
- W
- The Day After I Never Met You
- Silence Is Underrated
- Failure
- Nefarious Designs, Inc.
- You Know, You Know
- All Over
- Crazy
- Post-Crazy Improv
- Pre-Innocence Improv
- Fight For Innocence"
UPC: 045775054629
Label: Cuneiform
Release Date: 5.29.26
Format: CD
