Today’s Organ Thing of The Day is rather special, one of the finest bands of our times, Cheer-Accident have announced a new album, album number twenty something, and shared a first beautiful track and as we have said before, “If you already know then you know. If you don’t, then you really should”. The new album is called Admission, and with no more messing around here’s the rather brooding rather powerful first taste, let it build now, let it unfold, let it reveal what may not be obvious as first, let it be your problem, let it take all your blame. As we probably said yesteday, these are rich musical times and this ever rewarding band from Chicago are one of the very very best. Cold Comfort is sublte, it sounds like where it sits within the contact of the album will be important, and that trumpet is just georgeous, sit back, better than that, stand back, arms out, full attention, enjoy… And how good is that ending! What comes next?! how good is that moment when the trumpet forst comes in, flying music…
From Cheer-Accident’s liner notes:
“It’s weird to have so few words to say about our best album to date, but… well…
Our Best Album? Out of 26?
That’s not nothing.
What makes it “our best?” Is it the songs? Is it the production? Is it the convergence of those two elements? What if we added “accessibility?” It is, after all, a pop album. You know, very much in the same way that “The Why Album” and “What Sequel?” are. In fact, we very nearly named it “Now What”, viewing it as the final installment in this pop trilogy.
But that started to feel wrong, because: Why get locked into a “series” every time we happen to lean on the more melodic and concise aspect of what we do?
You know, and the thing is, this isn’t any kind of “return.” This is something new. Though it certainly shares DNA with the aforementioned What/Why releases, it also very much incorporates the rock and dissonance and experimentation present in many of our other forays. Maybe this is simply where we landed. Maybe this is what we are now. Maybe we’ve finally found the combination of ingredients that so perfectly synthesize as our aesthetic that there’s no need to go on from here. Maybe we’ve stopped. Maybe we’re done. Maybe we’ve finally found that sweet spot between the “adventurous” and the “palatable,” and we now intend to rest on our laurels.
What an Admission that would be…”
While you’re waiting, here’s a recent album
Previously, oh there’s loads of coverage, pages of it, we’ve been covering them from the start..
ORGAN THING: The mighty Cheer Accident covering the Theme From Shaft, how cool is that…
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