Vacate

Recorded by Steve Albini, this is CHEER-ACCIDENT's homage to the music of Burt Bacharach and '60s Easy Listening. "When I was five years old my favourite activity was to bop around to Herb Alpert's rendition of "Zorba The Greek." 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: Burt Bacharach. I'd become enamoured with him as well. Fast forward three decades later to this scenario: Phil Bonnet (our guitarist for the entirety of the '90s) and I are talking at Solid Sound. Phil is very excited to have