Accelera Deck - A Landslide of Stars

For 9 years Chris Jeely has recorded solo work under the name Accelera Deck, which has resulted in 8 full-length albums all varying style. Keeping in tradition with his continual experimentation, Jeely has turned Accelera Deck into an actual band here in 2006. The latest record A Landslide of Stars is the product of this venture and once again shows Jeely’s prowess to do good work no matter what category the music may fall under.

Although this is practically a new deal for Accelera Deck, there are moments that dive back into the projects past discography of dreamlike electronica. However, now playing as a full band, those moments are almost completely concealed by loads of dirty sounding distortion and Jeely’s similarly inaudible vocals. The albums finest songs are it’s longest in my opinion. Both “Fire Sermon” and “Wolf-Christ”, both show Jeely really excelling in his craft. I say this because they don’t feel like songs that stretch out past 8 minutes or so. No, these are the type of songs that propel themselves with the type of melodies and atmospherics that fans of shoegaze long for and wish would just go on forever. Really, Jeely and the rest of Accelera Deck have outdone themselves with this album and it just may be one of the best shoegaze related rock albums to come out this year.

Accelera Deck – Fire Sermon [MP3]

For those that dig what they here, A Landslide of Stars is available here at The Blue House. Also check out the MySpace for Accelera Deck for more tunes and bit more information.