Cheer-Accident: Putting Off Death

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Sacha Mullin (v)
Rob Pleshar (tba)
Dante Kester (b, ky)
Joan Morrone (frhn)
Cory Bengsten (bs)
Todd Fackler (tba)
Jeff Libersher (g, t, v, ky)
Mike Hegedorn (tb)
Ross Feller (ts)
Beth Yates (f)
Teria Gartelos (v)
Carmen Armilias (v)
Thymme Jones (d, v, p, t, ky, g, syn, noise

Label:

Cuneiform

September/2017

Catalogue Number:

Rune 446

RecordDate:

date not stated

If you've been holding your breath since the Accident's last outing, you're doubtless a shade purple as six years have passed. But hopefully you've put off death. The band have been a loose amalgam of musicians for three decades but the core of Jones and Libersher remains consistent as does their extraordinary drawing together of various musics. For example, they can embrace a pop-rock vibe as on the the female-voiced, piano-led and bigged-up melancholia of ‘Immanence’. Yet whatever paths they lead us down can change in a handbrake turn. ‘Language Is’ butts and weaves all over the place, finally throwing us like flotsam on to a beach of peace: ‘Hymn’ is positively lyric, with a winsome piano, but we know it's going to morph sometime into a Ligeti scream, while ‘Wishful Breathing’ inhabits Can world circa 1970. Cuneiform deserves huge credit for backing bands like Cheer-Accident: cheery they may not be (and the album title sure ain't ironic), but the intent, commitment and musical integrity of Jones and Libersher is for sure no accident.

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