SL039LP – Oliver Cherer – I Feel Nothing Most Days

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‘I FEEL NOTHING MOST DAYS’ TRACKLISTING :

  1. Weight Of The Water
  2. A Small Town
  3. Untitled 1983
  4. Earth Rise
  5. Sinners Of The World
  6. Slowly, Slowly
  7. An Unfamiliar Kitchen
  8. Seberg
  9. Most Days
  10. The Girl on Top of the Tree

Though released on Second Language in 2019, Oliver Cherer began to write some of the songs on ‘I Feel Nothing Most Days’ as far back as 1984. The Croydon-born, Hastings-based artist revisited the tracks after the chance rediscovery of a cassette in the attic and from there, set about completing them.

This lapse in decades may go some way to explaining why ‘I Feel Nothing Most Days’ perhaps evokes the spirit of early 80’s independent labels like Cherry Red or Les Disques Du Crespuscle, who specialised in a very European melancholic romanticism. There are echoes of Ben Watt’s debut solo album, ‘North Marine Drive’ and his EP collaboration with Robert Wyatt, ‘Summer Into Winter.’ There’s also an undeniable nod to early Durutti Column – accentuated by Ollie’s use of a Fender guitar on the album previously owned by Vini Reilly himself (used most notably on Morrissey’s debut solo album, ‘Viva Hate’). 

Buy/download/stream ‘I Feel Nothing Most Days’ from Oliver’s official Bandcamp page