Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Cheer-Accident - Babies Shouldn't Smoke


Label: 1993
Year: Complacency

Math noodle? Art jam? How do you describe what Cheer-Accident do, or have done, or maybe are currently thinking about doing some more? Maybe "prog rock" is the best way to articulate the twists and turns as this hyper rhythmic machine careens along it's way. It's one of those records that you might find yourself completely immersed in a song, or even part of a song, to then be brought back to attention via something completely different, or in some cases, completely terrible. That unevenness is the hallmark of Cheer-Accident....blissful moments of perfection tempered by passages of bland drivel. I'm sure there are legions of fans who eat up every single note, but there are also fans of Henry Cow who eat up every flugelhorn fart that guy sees fit to release (I'm guessing there's a flugelhorn in there somewhere...but at some point it all just bleeds into on big "jazz turd" and my ears stop working). If you get down on Yona-Kit or Brise Glace, then you are probably ready for this (and you probably already own it).
Try it out.

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11 comments:

  1. kittyempireOctober 23, 2012 at 12:09 PM

    Avant-jazz-skronk-wank perhaps? I was never really sure where to start with these guys and I reckon this is a good a place to start after that faintly ringing semi-endorsement. I can't wait for the passages of bland drivel...

    Good to see you still posting regular... too many good blogs gone tits-up lately.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 23, 2012 at 4:31 PM

    Henry Cow was a band, not a person lol

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  3. GrayOctober 23, 2012 at 5:53 PM

    You are correct Mr. Anonymous (and you must be a "Mr.", as no woman would ever come to the defense of Henry Cow), I was thinking of Fred Frith when I said "he", as that's who I associate Henry Cow with, but Henry Cow is not simply one man. It is a gross consortium of abominables who come together with the sole purpose of jerking off their instruments for my displeasure, and I hate them (and him...being Mr. Frith) for that.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 26, 2012 at 9:17 AM

    i have henry cow´s music in vynil since 1995. and i know perfectly every Skin Graft Records´ band.

    what will be your next discover? penicillin? gunpowder?

    fuck off

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  5. GrayOctober 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM

    Another fine point from yet another Anonymous contributor.

    Congratulations on your encyclopedic knowledge of the Skin Graft discography, I trust that will keep you warm on the nights you find yourself without the company of a lady friend (again), and shield you from the constant barrage of insults hurled at your Henry Cow collection.

    Have fun being a nerd.

    I would love to "fuck off", but it turns out, this is MY little dusty corner of the internet, and YOU invited yourself here, so it will have to be YOU who kindly doesn't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 2, 2012 at 4:12 PM

    1st anonymous here again: fair enough

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