The one-of-a-kind Chicago quartet, The Sea and Cake, are back at it. After the release of their previous album, “Everybody” in May of 2007, they hit the road. After finishing their Australian tour in March of 2008, the band recorded—in only three months—their seventh full-length studio release Car Alarm.
The group is comprised of singer/guitarist Sam Prekop, guitarist Archer Prewitt, bassist Eric Claridge, and percussionist John McEntire. Although each of these men is praised for wearing multiple artistic hats, The Sea and Cake maintains a quiet and all around unpretentious public personality.
According to John Corbett’s early press release on Car Alarm, “Sam Prekop says the band wanted to make a record that felt like they had never stopped playing, a continuously limbered up ensemble that parlayed its last tour into new material.”
A simple chore for The Sea and Cake, as they have a natural ability to parlay old sounds into new ones. Actually, one might even say, the band invokes in their listener a sense of musical déjà-vu.
The group is comprised of singer/guitarist Sam Prekop, guitarist Archer Prewitt, bassist Eric Claridge, and percussionist John McEntire. Although each of these men is praised for wearing multiple artistic hats, The Sea and Cake maintains a quiet and all around unpretentious public personality.
According to John Corbett’s early press release on Car Alarm, “Sam Prekop says the band wanted to make a record that felt like they had never stopped playing, a continuously limbered up ensemble that parlayed its last tour into new material.”
A simple chore for The Sea and Cake, as they have a natural ability to parlay old sounds into new ones. Actually, one might even say, the band invokes in their listener a sense of musical déjà-vu.
