Since its beginnings, Cheer-Accident has been one of the primary American exponents of jarring and difficult rock music. But what musicians create and what they love can be two very different things, and as it turns out, many of the members of the band have had a great fondness for some of the music often labeled as Easy Listening.
…essay from the band’s linchpin Thymme Jones explains that it had been the band’s ambition for some twenty-five years to make a Burt Bacharach-styled ‘easy listening’ record. Jones traced his own fondness for the music back to his parents’ Herb Alpert records, revealing what got the composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Jones to become a trumpet player himself.
Vacate isn’t terribly long: thirty-five minutes of…