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(Cheer-Accident have) earned a reputation for extreme left turns – following collections of complex, metallic art rock with albums stuffed with piano-driven balladry cementing a practice of defying expectations thats endured for more than three or four decades, depending on when you recognize as the group’s actual genesis – THE WIRE
From Cheer-Accident’s liner notes:
Its weird to have so few words to say about our best album to date, but well
Our Best Album? Out of 26?
Thats 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 isnt 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 weve finally found the combination of ingredients that so perfectly synthesize as our aesthetic that theres no need to go on from here. Maybe weve stopped. Maybe were done. Maybe weve 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.
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