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| JunkMedia |
 Don't let the grimy black and white photography on the cover fool you: Everybody, the Sea and Cake's latest, is one of the most sparklingly vibrant records you’ll hear this year. The long-running Chicago collective's last few releases have been slightly chilly affairs, with electronic textures and intricate arrangements taking precedence over the buoyant melodies and rhythms of their early 90s work....full text |
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| PitchFork |
| I've never seen the Sea and Cake play, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did so with their backs to the crowd. Their albums have never been unapproachable-- most of the time, in fact, they're pretty and inviting. They have great ears for rhythm, borrowing from bossa nova and Afro-pop, and they've a charming vocalist in Sam Prekop. And yet they can come off as stuffy and cerebral-- the kind of band categorized as "pop" by default, the way you'd use the word to describe Stereolab or their neighbors and contemporaries Tortoise. These qualities became even more prominent with the keyboards and electronic dalliances on albums beginning in 1997 with The Fawn up through 2003's One Bedroom. ...full text |
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| DustedMagazine |
Elegantly syncopated, breezily melancholy, Everybody slips by like a soft summer afternoon. It's the seventh album by this post-rockers-on-Brazilian-pop-holiday foursome -- Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt, Eric Claridge and John McEntire. It's maybe a little spinier and rock leaning than earlier efforts, but still, so effortlessly, lullingly pretty that serious listening becomes difficult. You catch a lyric or two, notice the bass line percolating under a track, admire the restlessly imaginative drums for a bar...and then all the sudden, you're staring out the window again, wrapped in daydreams.....
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