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Sea and Cake Ready Everybody
Back. Street's. Back. Alright! Oh, wait-- wrong "Everybody". Whoops! Guess I just had boy bands on the brain. But Chicago indie institution the Sea and Cake? They're a man band.

They've got experience, having played together for nearly 15 years, and they've got fidelity, having stuck with hometown label Thrill Jockey since the beginning. Come May 8, Thrill Jockey will serve up yet another Sea and Cake testament to raging manliness, the quartet's seventh album to date: Everybody.

Everybody follows up 2003's One Bedroom and features the tried-and-true lineup of vocalist/guitarist Sam Prekop (Dracula), guitarist Archer Prewitt (mummy), bassist Erik Claridge (Frankenstein monster), and drummer John McEntire (werewolf). What they may lack in synchronized dance moves, they more than make up for with sparkling, graceful arrangements and thoughtful songwriting.

Despite Prekop's best intentions, Everybody contains-- like every Sea and Cake album before it-- exactly 10 songs. Unlike the band's previous LPs, this one was recorded with some help from sound engineer Brian Paulson (Wilco, Slint) at Michigan's Key Club. It was "like a little rock'n'roll boot camp," Prekop told Pitchfork earlier this month.

As previously reported, Cakers Prekop and McEntire are slowly piecing together a electronic record, while Prekop also has a book of photography on the way. Expect the Sea and Cake to hit the road this spring to rock your body right.

Everybody:

01 Up on Crutches
02 Too Strong
03 Crossing Line
04 Middlenight
05 Coconut
06 Exact to Me
07 Lightning
08 Introducing
09 Left On
10 Transparent

Nice.

One more '07 release I'm looking forward to.

i'm looking forward to your release all over my tennis shoes.

Can't wait to hear this and to see them live.

Also, I bet that electronic album will be good too. I always liked the stuff they did for the Two Gentlemen ep.

They're nowhere near as good as they were in the 90s, but this is still very much anticipated

Have you heard the Glass EP they released right after One Bedroom?

I was listening to their cover of "Sound and Vision" yesterday and thinking how much it sounds like The Flaming Lips. I should have more to listen to from this band but I just don't. I never really got into them. Looking forward to the new Trans Am (sometime this month?) more than this.

Aside: I wonder why people worship Band Of Horses but don't give a shit about Arbouretum. I guess that having a few gold records gives the Sub Pop marketing machine more muscle than anything Thrill Jockey can scrap together. Oh well.

No, is it worth checking out?

What do you think of their last few records?

undo, you really should get THE FAWN like right now.

I'm a big fan!


I know!

...and THE BIZ... which is so good it should be called THE JIZZ, which is what happens when I think of the opening three tracks of the album ("The Biz," "Leeora," "The Kiss"). So damn good!

I smell a Sea and Cake binge coming this weekend...and I think it all starts with "Parasol" from Nassau.

yeah, everything after the fawn never did much for me, other than the solo prekop and prewitt stuff.

As much as I bristle at your Grandaddy album theory, I'm with you here. I only own up to The Fawn (along with that Two Gentlemen EP...well, and a burn of Oui).

And, by the way, the discovery of that self-titled first album was a watershed moment for me. "Jacking The Ball" is fantastic.

i remember seeing them play at lounge ax when the biz came out, it was the sexiest that place ever felt.

If you liked Two Gentlemen, yes. It's very much in the same vein. I'd upload it myself, but my home computer's in the shop (for 3 weeks now! )

And yeah, The Biz is perfection. That was my first exposure to them, and it was love at first note

Just got new Sea and Cake tour dates from Thrill Jockey's PR person.


Mon. May 14 Vancouver, BC @ Richard's on Richards w/ The Zincs
Tue. May 15 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's w/ The Zincs
Wed. May 16 Portland OR @ Crystal Ballroom w/ The Zincs
Fri. May 18 San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's w/ The Zincs
Sat. May 19 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour w/ The Zincs
Sun. May 20 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour w/ The Zincs
Mon. May 21 Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up w/ The Zincs
Thu. May 31 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle (2 shows) **
Mon. June 2 Toronto, ON @ Mod Club w/ The Zincs
Sun. June 3 Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa w/ The Zincs
Tue. June 5 Boston, MA @ Paradise w/ Loney Dear, The Zincs
Thu. June 7 New York, NY @ Webster Hall w/ Loney Dear, The Zincs
Fri. June 8 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts w/ Loney Dear,
The Zincs
Sat. June 9 Washington, DC @ Black Cat w/ Loney Dear, The Zincs

Sweet, I will attend.