Blog: The Key

The Sea And Cake ’s ninth and latest collection of songs,  The Moonlight Butterfly , welcomes new listeners and veteran fans with equal accessibility. Though the Chicago-based indie group has credited a wide range of influences since its 1994 self-titled debut—citing everything from Brazil to Africa to US Top 40 and back again—the band’s lengthy discography has nonetheless maintained a certain relentless sameness in sound. That’s not to say the music is all peaceful fluff, though; The Sea And Cake makes several attempts to shift between soft, vague harmonies and hard, concrete patterns. The 10-minute long track “Inn Keeping,” for [...]