The Sea and Cake: COD/SD etc. etc.

Yeah, I know about Claridge's painting career, dude.

when did you 'discover' it?

okay, okay, i'll stop

please

http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/index.html?id=103254
new album called Car Alarm to be released 2008-10-21

first album still my favorite by them, I don't think they'll ever top it.

I don't know what their best album is but I know that everyone had some really good songs. Glass EP, for instance, was a great direction for The Sea and Cake but then they had to release Everybody next - I didnt really care for that album. But as far as mixtapes go, they have more than enough great material spanning their entire career. Archer Prewitt could easily have a greatest hits cd also even though he has only released 5 albums.

The Sea and Cake's lyrics have always been nice, abstract pleasantries that are unlike any other bands lyrics. There is a timeless quality to the lyrics since for the most part they don't make any sense and you can envision the story differently every time.

And Sam Prekop's voice is easy on the ears but always fresh and crispy nonetheless.

So yeah The Sea and Cake has always been in my top 10 band list.

Still play & enjoy Everybody a lot. Should check out the debut I guess. Looking very much forward to Car Alarm. Although that blurb on the TJ site is a bit too much/elaborate I like the idea of them going straight into the studio after touring the last album and record the next in 3 months time.

1) Nassau
2) The Fawn
3) The Biz

Car Alarm sounds the way I want it to so far :)))

did not know about this

As good as two gentlemen?

does louis jagger like these guys? they seem like his kinda thing, I'm kinda surprised that he hasn't contributed to this thread

Well I got 5 tracks out of 12 and Two Gentlemen isn't the one I listen to. I play random tracks so I wouldn't know. I just know this is better than Everybody. But I love the band nonetheless... it doesn't have poppy like singing as does "we come by when you say that, we come by, we come by when you say that, we come by" or Afternoon Speaker or Station In The Valley. It has the heavier guitars from everybody but they sound more like the traditional sea and cake sound "beachy"... and the singing sounds great even though not poppy so far (I've heard 5 tracks).

They are definitely my thing. I give the a big shiny star. Fuck Louis Jagger or whoever he is.

I'd say if you like Two Gentlemen and havent tried Glass ep, go for it.
But this doesn't sound like those so much so far.

I like glass fine, but it doesn't have Early Chicago and a brilliant cover.

I'll give those a go, I'll be jogging today with my ipod, might as well

http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=50505
Here's just a small taste of the more technoish sound of one short track.
The other songs aren't like this though.

everytime this thread pops up I'm compelled to say: SHOWBOAT ANGEL

^^^^^^^^

Always hated this guy's insufferable vox.

I bet you like crappy music in general :[ Mr. Steve Hater

Where are you hearing this? I e-mailed Brent DiCrescenzo a few weeks ago after he reviewed "Car Alarm" (the song) in Time Out Chicago to see where I could find it. No dice.

Soulseek, as a temporary mediator before I decide whether to purchase the album. Still stuck with only 5 songs though.

anyone hear this yet?

It's funny how there are a whole bunch of bands I liked in college that have since put out one or more boring albums that have caused me to lose interest - these guys, Silver Jews, Bonnie Prince Billy, Tortoise, etc. Actually maybe that's not funny at all but in fact totally predictable.

For me Tortoise lost me with their bonnie prince billy album, but I wont stop perusing them or the sea and cake who lost me with Everybody. They both have it in them for some great song if not albums.

Glass and One Bedroom had some great songs as did Tortoise's It's All Around You and A Lazarus Taxon...

I meant Tortoise's boring collaboration with Will Oldham ^^^ one thread up.

I'm listening to the new sea and cake right now, they almost always have a great vibe; track 6, weekends, is kicking my ass.

new video up at Pitchfork. Mark gives it a nice description, but I didn't like the electronics. And I always want them to use more electronics.

I've been playing this album a lot. At first I liked the song in the video you mentioned. Now the electronics are agreeably more annoying than cool.

But the song that comes after it New Schools, is my fav on the album.
The first song Aerial is pretty good as well

Probably because New Schools is the only one with a guitar solo?

Reminds me of the new Wilco album in that I like Impossible Germany for the guitar solo and then there is some nice stuff on there but that's pretty much it. At least Car Alarm has more of a beachy feel of their earlier albums.

I listened to a bunch of their albums today and Nassau is so, so great. But pretty different from the rest. That and the Fawn are my top two.

Just saw a Citi commercial while watching Heroes that uses "Jacking The Ball." Weird. I wonder if they're gettin paid. Makes me wanna listen to that first album again for the first time in years.

Ha, a friend e-mailed me about that this morning. I'm sure they're getting paid. Sam Prekop wrote an original song for a Target commercial a few years ago.

I heard an album by these blokes. it was alright but I don't think they write very good songs

New album 'Runner' (number ten apparently!) is out in September on Thrill Jockey. I'm not familiar with their previous albums, but have really got to like this one in the past week...

http://www.thrilljockey.com/assets/covers/105605.jpg

Has anyone who knows the previous albums heard it? How might it compare?

Ooh I hadn't heard there was a new one, thanks for the tip. I kind of feel like their last few albums have appealed to me mostly as comfort music, but ain't nothing wrong with that.

Theyve been gradually moving into less comfy, chilled grounds into some sort of rock-pop with a retro pastiche. His singing voice seems like its aping Robert Smith at times imho, not necessarily a bad thing.

Only heard Harps off of this so far and it sounds good, similar to what they were doing in Car Alarm but more straightforward in the rhythm section.

Also track 'an echo in' from the glass ep is one of my favorite of them and pretty similar to the last single in mood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIqMAFplHJo

Is there a new single available?

Oops I meant Harps maybe not new single it made it into pitchforks best new tracks and I assumed they only reviewed singles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a5j2SzmtBg

Getting a Can "All Gates Open" vibe from that

these new songs are incredible! seriously great.

Uhhh. . . Runner is seriously their most well-rounded and best album since the Fawn.

And probably my favorite album of 2012.

you know I should really get off my ass and get a copy of this

same here - loving the "single"(?)

new one is great, but they all are. looking forward to seeing them live in a few weeks.

they were great last night. played a lot of the new album (on and on, harps, and the runner are seriously up there with their best ever songs) plus jacking the ball, the argument and an excellent extended jam on station in the valley (i think; it was something from the biz). no eric claridge though, doug mccombs filled in, not sure why.

"Transparent," the last track on Everybody, is so serene

Everybody is totally underrated. I get why, since it's pretty low-key (obviously), came 4 years after their weakest record (to that point), and was released 6 years or so after the "post-rock" moment officially passed. But along with The Moonlight Butterfly, it's probably their strongest post-Oui work.

Only time I saw them was on the Everybody tour and they were totally brilliant. They didn't play 'Lightning' though — no matter how much I screamed or it.