Winnipeg’s Cheerleader churns out well-crafted indie pop with chunky guitar hooks and self- deprecating, ironic singing about girls and stuff like that. Cheerleader’s strength is in their quirky songwriting:”Truckin’,” -which has nothing to do with the well-known Grateful Dead song of the same title – builds up to the oddly hummable refrain of “Happiness is a ray of sunshine / Haul it away on a flatbed trailer.” Altogether, though, it’s nice-sounding but unremarkable stuff.
Title: Cheerleader format: 7″ $4.50 Endearing Records (see above)