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NEWS UPDATE: June 30th, 2023

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- Out August 18th, 2023 -
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LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS
"Effusive Supreme"
LP / CD / Ult-Ed / Digital
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- PREVIEW & ORDER at BANDAMP -

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LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS PDF One-Sheet cat # GR153 LP/CD/Ult-Ed/Digital

Hi There,

This is Mark writing. I hope you're prepared to have a great day, because we're delivering the makings of one to you right now!  "Effusive Supreme" the long-awaited third SKiN GRAFT album from Chicago's LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS is now up for pre-orders... and the debut single is streaming right now! 

Here's the press release: 
"Lovely Little Girls deal in absurd and jarring contrasts. The group's knotty, intricate songs heave and dance and skitter, sometimes gracefully dexterous and sometimes grotesquely lumpy -  clearly the work of formidably talented musicians with vivid imaginations. Jacobsen's demented lead vocals flicker from frighteningly histrionic to carefully declamatory, with eruptions of abject mania or borderline obscenity, but behind him a chorus of singers might deliver a pristine, almost angelic chant of "the pain, the horror" - Chicago Reader

Lovely Little Girls is a theatrical art-rock band from Chicago that features members of Cheer-Accident and The Flying Luttenbachers. They specialize in odd harmonies and catchy melodies served with a histrionic flair. “Effusive Supreme”, their third LP for SKiN GRAFT Records, delves into more personal and abstract territory, highlighting the utilitarian and fetishistic relationship to shoes on one track, while enthusiastically accepting egodeath’s indifferent embrace on the next. Equally informed by Magma and Dead Kennedys, Lovely Little Girls pull from a range that runs the gamut yards past the finish line - everything from Esquivel to Toto.

When asked about the band, vocalist Gregory Jacobsen had this to say: “Lovely Little Girls has been a labor of love of mine for over twenty years and is the performance extension of my art practice. Using my paintings as an aesthetic blueprint, I work with a gaggle of amazing and warped musicians, birthing odd yet catchy music. The group started as a chaotic and noisy one-off performance piece inspired by Johanna Went, The Kipper Kids, Henry Darger, and “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.” Throughout the years it has evolved into a juggernaut of prog/punk/no-wave absurdity featuring intricate arrangements of dramatic psychodramas”.


PRESS QUOTES: 
"What makes Lovely Little Girls unique is the care for complex arrangements, creating quirky prog-no wave hybrids. Their songs are impressive psychodramas of melodic detours and anguished explosions full of theatrical uneasiness" - ChainDLK

"Stuns listeners into submission with heavy doses of horns and lyrical flogging. Equal parts jazz, prog, and avant-garde, this horde of provocateurs revels in disturbing the peace" - Razorcake

"…the total package: challenging, dissonant, ever-changing experimental rock, conceptually linked songs, and ambitious themed stage productions that often involve makeup, prosthetics, partial nudity, and large casts of players" - Chicago Reader

"Lovely Little Girls are your favourite cartoon villains, plotting the takeover of the city before the Joker does" - The Organ

Fun Fact: “Be Good to Your Shoes” is based on the "Rosanna Shuffle."

Each 12" Vinyl purchase will include a 11" x 11" "Glamour Cat" print - AND - everyone who dares to pre-order the Lovely Little Girls "Effusive Supreme" Ultimate Edition (on color or black vinyl), will receive a mystery screen print!  

You can hear the first single off the album "Breathing on the Back" and place an order HERE.



LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS "Effusive Supreme" | Album Announcement |
out 08.18.23 | SKiN GRAFT Records

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NEWS UPDATE: June 16th, 2023

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- Out NOW -
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CHEER-ACCIDENT
"Fringments Two"
Glass-Mastered Compact Disc
in Six Panel Gatefold Jacket / Digital
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CHEER-ACCIDENT PDF One-Sheet cat #: GR152 CD / Digital

Hi Everyone,

CHEER-ACCIDENT "Fringements Two" has been made public for a few hours now and the first post-release review has just crossed our NEWS DESK...(!) 

MELOMANIA writes:

CHEER-ACCIDENT
Fringements Two [CD]
(SKiN GRAFT / Redeye)

In the beautiful randomness of being, we have Cheer-Accident. “Fringements Two” is a challenging but enjoyable audio collage of “found sound” from their recordings and life. Yes, “Breath Taken!” is the (SPOILER REDACTED). “Philrock” could be Led Zeppelin. For example, “West Side W” is a tack piano part gone mad. As it fits in with the direct opposite of the smooth Herb Alpert-weirdness of “Fambiz Marching Band,” you realize that both tracks are playing with the same wild repetition with different results. Next, they turn the overdriven This Heat-ish drums down from “West Side W” and layer horns and distorted vocals into a disturbing pastiche that would make The Residents bat their giant eye at them. “Fringements Two” is not an album per se. It is the experience of hearing 40 years of absolute freedom to compose, record, and collect reduced down to a weird palette that they can continue to pull from. Oh, you can too.


You can unredact that spoiler by visiting the MELOMANIA site HERE (scroll down a bit for the review) - or you can HEAR it for your self HERE. CHEER-ACCIDENT will be on the road supporting the release of "Fringements Two".  Tour dates follow the press release below...

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CHEER-ACCIDENT "Fringements Two" CD / DIGITAL
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o "Cheer-Accident is difficult to dislike"  - ALL MUSIC GUIDE

o “One of the greatest, most challenging, and most fun bands that Chicago has ever produced - and their music will always transcend genre and hype”  - CHICAGO READER

o “It’s impossible to say what’s going to come next - just one more thing that makes Cheer-Accident truly progressive”  - BANDCAMP DAILY

Well, the bad news is... this isn’t the first of its kind; also the bad news: it won’t be the last. That’s right: you have stumbled upon the SECOND in a series featuring nothing but odd fragments of historical CHEER-ACCIDENT ephemera, which will apparently continue well into perpetuity. This particular installment has the distinction of ending with the best song ever recorded, which - on its face - would seem like it would be a positive thing, but alas: as it turns out, “the best song ever” isn’t necessarily a song you would  actually want to listen to.

Once a band reaches that four-decade mark in their existence, particularly a band such as CHEER-ACCIDENT, who have travailed so much aesthetic ground during this time, you just know that they have a veritable treasure trove of flotsam and jetsam (in varying degrees of “fi”) lying around, just waiting to be turned into a whimsical encyclopedic series of semi-random aural events. 

This Is That.

“Fringements Two” is the second chapter, wherein CHEER-ACCIDENT avails to the public documentation of intimate practice space encounters, obscure demos, and even some “slicker” recordings that just never found a home on any of their other releases. 

NOTE:
Each glass-mastered compact disc comes complete in a matte-glosssix panel gatefold jacket - jam-packed with extensive liner notes on each and every practice space encounter, answering machine message, demo track and previously unreleased studio recording.

BUY IT at BANDCAMP

CHEER-ACCIDENT:
"FRINGEMENTS TWO-UR" aka "SUMMER 2023 TOUR"
Wed 7/19. Indy: The Healer
Thurs 7/20. Pittsburgh: Government Center
Fri 7/21. Philly: The Rotunda
Sat. 7/22. NYC: C'mon Everybody! (at 7:00 pm!)
Sun. 7/23. Portland, Maine: Apohadion Theater
Mon. 7/24. Boston: State Park
Tues. 7/25. Kingston: Tubby's
Wed. 7/26. Cleveland: Grog Shop
Thurs. 7/27. Ypsilanti: Ziggy's
Fri. 7/28. Chicago: Martyrs'

Thank you,

Mark F'

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