Some new and a couple old(ish) tunes for your shopping list this week . Enjoy thoroughly. J Mascis "I've Been Thinking" [ follow ] from Circle 73 (b-side) * * * Dinosaur Jr plays The Fillmore w/ Henry Rollins 12/15 tickets Narrow Sparrow "Joe Meeks Dream" [ follow ] from Synthworks Sam Prekop "C+F" [ follow ] from Who's Your New Professor Mouse on [...]
Photo by Megan Holmes, image from Thrill Jockey. As someone who is unacquainted with The Sea and Cake's previous output (and there has been a lot since their formation in the mid '90s), and whose first impression of them was listening to their 6-track LP, Moonlight Butterfly , my best description of their sound is: an extremely distant derivative of the repetitive art rock of the '60s and '70s, namely that written by bands like King Crimson, (specifically the songs "Discipline" and "Three of a Perfect Pair"). S and C seem also like a smoothed [...]
[Photos courtesy of Patrick Proctor at Hippies Are Dead ] "We feel like we're in the Deep South," said The Sea and Cake 's Sam Prekop somewhere mid-set at the Bowery Ballroom this Tuesday. "And that's a compliment." No doubt Sam was referring to the level of enthusiasm from this weeknight crowd, including at least one audience member who seemed to think it was a Motley Crue concert. To hear a girl screaming "Bring the fuckin' heat!" in between songs at an almost professorially mild-mannered, jazz-influenced Chicago indie act was certainly a new one [...]
Con motivo de la visita de The Sea and Cake este domingo en Amanda, reciclamos una entrevista a Sam Prekop, voz y guitarra de la banda, realizada el verano del 2003. Fue el punto alto del fallido festival de Nuevas Tendencias de febrero pasado. Apenas armado de una guitarra evocó buena parte de su disco solista así como algunos de sus éxitos -o temas más conocidos, a decir verdad- de The Sea and Cake a una audiencia ensimismada con su voz. La siguiente conversación fue registrada al día siguiente, una soleada tarde de verano [...]
Illustration by Johnnie Cluney Jazzy post-rockers The Sea and Cake are the latest Chicago-area band to record a set over at Daytrotter . The group's five-song set featured a few tunes from its latest album The Moonlight Butterfly as well as an oldie "The Argument" from 1997's The Fawn . The Sea and Cake's set is solid with plenty of upbeat pop grooves. Specifically "Up on the North Shore" sounds like it would have been this year's high contender for sparkling [...]
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Fresh off the plane from a three month work stint in America I was asked by The Recommender if I wanted to cover Field Day in their absence. I figured that this would be a suitable reintroduction to London and it's diverse music scene. Besides, half the people in the audience looked like they thought [...]
With festivals every single weekend, it's hard to imagine that any one could be that different from the rest. But if nothing else, Chicago's two-year old Neon Marshmallow Festival proves that assumption so very wrong. The noise/drone/electronic/general ly avant-garde acts that pummeled the crowd for three nights won't be filling out even the earliest of slots at Coachella or Lollapalooza, and the fans who filed into work Monday morning with damaged ear drums and huge grins on their faces wouldn't want it any other way. Neon Marshmallow is, in a word, weird. In two words, delightfully weird. [...]
The Sea and Cake 's newest mini-album (six songs puts it somewhere between an EP and an LP), The Moonlight Butterfly, opens with a warm deluge of ringing sound, a beat that slides in softly, and murmured vocals reminiscent of the quieter moments had by Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene. But what makes opening track "Covers" so tranquil is the same kind of soothing monotony that ends up burdening the album as a whole. Yes, this is a collection of cerebral songs for the quiet life, the zen garden moments—a leaf changing colors, rippling pond water, a [...]
fealty (fee-uhl-tee) –noun 1. fidelity to a lord. 2. the obligation or the engagement to be faithful to a lord, usually sworn to by a vassal. 3. fidelity; faithfulness. -synonyms constancy, dedication, devotion, divined, duty, faithfulness, fidelity, honor (honour), loyalty, obligation TRACKS Cliff Richard - Faithful One [album: Something's Goin' On 2004] Lemar - Be Faithful [...]
Few bands out there today are as confident and dialed in with their sound as Chicago post-rock vets The Sea And Cake. Over the course of 20 years the band has never been one to throw fans for a loop, but band leader Sam Prekop's smooth vocals and distinctive, jazz-inspired arrangements have always done the trick for me. The well-oiled group stays on track with their new mini album, The Moonlight Butterfly , out next month on Thrill Jockey . Download the breezy single " Up On The North Shore" below (via Stereogum [...]
As this morning's post makes clear, I can get pretty anal about tracking what I listen to. Coincidentally, Nick Southall has appealed to anyone who'll participate to spend this week keeping a music diary . So of course I'm in. For this week only, I'm going to get even more detailed about my daily listening habits. If anything, it will show just how skewed my weekly Soundtrack posts are (since they only track albums I listen to from beginning to end). Here's how Monday shaped up: 6:35 am: I'm up when my alarm clock, [...]
this year's first cutie is The Silhouettes by Sam Prekop taken from his Old Punch Card LP directed by Jordan Kim animators: Cris Shapan, Michael Wingate, Patrick Armitage, Jordan Kim
Back in August, we gave you the scoop on the new solo album from The Sea And Cake's Sam Prekop . Titled Old Punch Card , the album, which was release in September, was very much a departure from his previous solo material and main project and instead focused on electronic and avant garde compositions. Well, late last month, a video was released for the Old Punch Card track "The Silhouettes" that's a warmly animated affair directed and partly animated by Yo Gabba Gabba! and Tom Goes to the Mayor animator Jordan [...]
Today's FOA Video of the Day comes from Thrill Jockey artist Sam Prekop . This killer video (cute anthropomorphized blobs having adventures to celestial electro music) was directed by Jordan Kim of Yo Gabba Gabba fame. Tearfully adorable and annoyingly uplifting: Sam Prekop - The Silhouettes from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo .
Sam Prekop has a new video out for his song "The Silhouettes." You can check it out above, but let me warn you that it is completely adorable. If the animation seems familiar, it's because it was created by Jordan Kim, who has also had a hand in making animation for Yo Gabba Gabba! and Tom Goes to the Mayor .
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