Benbecula Records
Scotland, 1999-2009
Electronica, ambient, electro,
folk, post-rock ... blah
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MINERALS SERIES
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Cheer "Static Traps" Benbecula Records, 2008 (BEN541) CD Album Minerals Series - Limited Release date: 18 February 2008 BUY THIS RELEASE Track Listing 01 Sat am 02 Hangover Jig 03 2 Stops 04 Downy Birch 05 The Fall Off 06 No Storm 07 Afterthought 08 Every Forest Has Its Shadow 09 Optimism in Buckets 10 Song for Irony Cheer builds upon his previous release on Benbecula "Night Map" with rolling arpeggiations juxtaposed with fresh sounds and instrumentation providing an altogether fuller and more accessible sound. 2007 saw Cheer output on Drifting Falling, Lefthand Pressings and Fugues. Reviews “Glaswegian Alex Cheer’s contribution to the Benbecula label’s monthly Minerals series of releases is a beguiling collection of chiming guitar instrumentals and drifting half-melodies channelled through fuzzy drone soundscapes and benign electronic ruptures. Cheer’s bareboned guitar style is a kind of post-electronica folk picking, where clarity gives way to Ambient noise or collides gently with fluttering tape manipulation and processed found sound. Certain tracks fall clearly in one camp or the other; either melodic neo-folk pieces or sparser, drifting tonal workouts. But Cheer is also able to deftly navigate between the two, sometimes integrating them in subtle combinations of crystalline clarify and blurry abstraction. The style here isn’t really riveting or overtly dramatic, but is more about subtle shading and leaving a gentler, but lingering impression.” The Wire "... Microscopically brilliant." The Skinny "... A calming release that drips with melancholy and wonder from this evergreen Scots label ..." AngryApe Videos |
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