{"product_id":"vacate-2","title":"Vacate","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecorded by \u003cstrong\u003eSteve Albini\u003c\/strong\u003e, this is \u003cem\u003eCHEER-ACCIDENT\u003c\/em\u003e's homage to the music of \u003cstrong\u003eBurt Bacharach\u003c\/strong\u003e and '60s Easy Listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"When I was five years old my favourite activity was to bop around to \u003cem\u003eHerb Alpert\u003c\/em\u003e's rendition of \"\u003cem\u003eZorba The Greek\u003c\/em\u003e.\" Herb was my guy. I was obsessed. He's the reason I started playing trumpet in 6th Grade. When I'd entered junior high, and found myself in the school band, I'd managed to track down almost every one of those thirteen original Tijuana Brass albums that came out in the '60s. Most of these I'd found in the \"easy listening\" section at the record store, where I'd noticed another familiar name that would consistently pop up: \u003cstrong\u003eBurt Bacharach\u003c\/strong\u003e. I'd become enamoured with him as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFast forward three decades later to this scenario: \u003cstrong\u003ePhil Bonnet\u003c\/strong\u003e (our guitarist for the entirety of the '90s) and I are talking at Solid Sound. Phil is very excited to have recently gotten his hands on the \u003cstrong\u003eBurt Bacharach\u003c\/strong\u003e box set, and we are listening to it in the control room. As we sit there together, blissing out to the sublime strains of \"\u003cem\u003eOur Day Will Come\u003c\/em\u003e,\" he looks over at me and says, \"I never use this word, but he's a... (pause)... (sheepishly)... genius.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow perfect was it that Phil and I were in a dissonant\/abrasive\/aggressive rock band together, and yet our strongest convergence was in the area of \"easy listening?\" Indeed all four members of this '90s incarnation of \u003cem\u003eCHEER-ACCIDENT\u003c\/em\u003e shared a deep passion for this music, and there were murmurs of dedicating an entire album to this genre, starting in the mid-'90s. These murmurs grew louder and more insistent (accompanied by serious demos being recorded by all involved), and by early '99, there were specific plans being made to record this selection of songs... just in time for Phil's sudden and devastating death on 2\/2\/99.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd now, one year after \u003cstrong\u003eBurt\u003c\/strong\u003e's death and 25 years after Phil's death, we have unlocked this treasure chest of heartfelt songs (three of which have the latter's stamp on them), and \u003cem\u003eCuneiform Records\u003c\/em\u003e has taken on the noble task of availing them to the public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePandemically recorded by one \u003cstrong\u003eSteve Albini\u003c\/strong\u003e (whose name is virtually synonymous with \"easy listening\") at his charmed studio, \u003cem\u003eElectrical Audio\u003c\/em\u003e in Chicago, this is surely our most severe example of \"delayed gratification\" to date. I know that \"severity\" and \"easy listening\" do not exactly go hand in hand, but we always have had a rather \u003cem\u003eBachAssarach\u003c\/em\u003e way of doing things.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThank You For (Easily) Listening. -- \u003cstrong\u003eThymme Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eCHEER-ACCIDENT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cuneiform","offers":[{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50399294947659,"sku":"2176137","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/image007_1_9c7aa96e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726504106","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/vacate-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}