Cheer-Accident - Enduring The American Dream (band-released CDR)
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Complacency 2006
The good news: This is one of their masterpieces, I think (and most agree) and it is finally back again!
The bad news: It is a band-made, band sold CDR version. FYI, kidz.
The enigmatic Cheer-Accident formed in 1981, when the members were in High School, but it wasn't until 1988 when they released their first album, Sever Roots, Tree Dies. These guys do things the hard way; they are not content to give their audience what their audience thinks they want.
Hence, they can be anything from a utterly fantastic to a utterly frustrating listen, depending on what you were hoping that the record you are listening would be, based on the last album by them you heard. They are also the band that the phrase 'brutal prog' was coined for (by Weasel Walter, in the 90's). Anyway, they have long been a creative, interesting force in rock music, and we're happy to stock their releases, even though you may find them frustrating as well! This was released in 1997.
"This full-length, their sixth, is a densely structured 72 minute work which utilizes a variety of instruments and musical approaches while retaining a cohesive aesthetic integrity. Certainly their most ambitious endeavor up to this point, "Enduring" was recorded over a five-year period and contains fourteen pieces that range from lo-fi pop to carefully constructed noise collages to extended form rock compositions. After recording their 52-minute song, "Trading Balloons" in May of '97, the band retreated deeply into it's own psyche, practically drowning in id vomit. This "id vomit" is rather hard to describe in musical terms, but let's just say that it's the psycho-acoustic equivalent to a squashed bug's insides oozing out as it slowly dies. From the summer of 1997 to the fall of 1998 there were long stretches of time where it looked like Cheer-Accient would never "rock" again. However, on September 23, 1998 at Lounge Ax (with The Bells and The Flying Luttenbachers), they whipped out one of their patented (and ever-improving) "all over the map" heavy prog shows, signaling to the world that they were "back"."
This 9/23/98 show is the show where Weasel of the Flying Lutenbachers, coined the term...