THE SEA AND CAKE
Everybody
Thrill Jockey
· Chicago-based mellow jammers send listeners on a groovy elevator ride.
After promoting and touring 2003’s One Bedroom, The Sea and Cake, as an entity, kept quiet. The members instead pursued their own solo ideas and other projects. Sam Prekop, vocals, released Who’s Your New Professor. Archer Prewitt, guitars, released Wilderness. John McEntire, percussion, shared his time with his other band, Tortoise, as well as helping out with the production of Bright Eyes’s most recent, Cassadaga.
Musically, not much has changed for The Sea and Cake since its last album. On Everybody, the band is still making unique sounds that blur the lines between elevator music and indie rock. With fuzzy guitar distortion, warm analog synthesizers, meandering basslines and a jazz-tuned drum kit, the band’s instrumentation choices always lean on to mellowness. Whispering vocals on "Too Strong" bring to mind the slower, soulful songs that came out of Siamese Dream era Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins). "Exact to Me" has restrained surf-guitar riffs that pair very well with the lounge atmosphere created by muffled bass and drums.
With any luck, Everybody will replace the tiresome "downtempo" and "chill-out" compilations heard in hip hotel lobbies and martini bars around the city.
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