Cheeksters

It’s been a while since the national media latched onto any particular city as the breeding ground for the “next big music scene,” and indeed it may be that in the year 2000 such distinctions are no longer useful........

...The Cheeksters “Count the Cost,” from Skating on the Cusp – The best song on a very good album, this extended reverie is softened by a lugubrious rhythm, brittle autoharp, barely audible trumpet, and Mark Casson’s expressively high-pitched British croon. The song cements the band’s pleasant, backward-focused filtering of modern life. Almost as good: Beautiful Lie, the very next song on the disc.