Cerebellum

With a brief lifespan and just one single cassette-only discharge to talk about, Cerebellum appears to be like a simple blip for the Louisville indie scene that sprang up in the wake of Squirrel Bait. Nevertheless, Cerebellum’s members continued to so a great many other tasks — many of them significant, or at the minimum interesting — that their legacy expands much further than appearances indicate. Founded in the summertime of 1988, Cerebellum grew out of many local works, and originally highlighted a quintet account of vocalist/guitarist Joey Mudd, guitarists Breck Pipes and Tim Furnish, bassist Jon Make, and drummer Will Chatham; extra vocalist Drew Daniel, who doubled on steel found-object percussion, shortly came up to speed as a 6th member. The music group often switched musical instruments during its concert events, and helped press Louisville from an evergrowing punk orthodoxy and toward a far more challenging, progressive design that foreshadowed the mathematics rock that the town would afterwards become known. Due to different musical distinctions, the quartet of Daniel, Furnish, Make, and Chatham started working on fresh material individually of Mudd and Pipes. If they performed their first display collectively as Crain in June 1989, it spelled the finish of Cerebellum nearly immediately. Cerebellum’s just recording, a self-titled affair, premiered posthumously on cassette by the neighborhood indie label Slamdek almost a year later on. While Crain by no means broke nationally, they might continue to exert a substantial influence on the neighborhood scene. Daniel remaining Crain after a couple of months to attend university; he would later on type the experimental techno duo Matmos. While still in Crain, Make spent a short while as the inaugural drummer of mathematics rock and roll favorites Rodan. Furnish continued to create Parlour after Crain’s eventual separation.