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...Cake??s offhand cultural awareness and deadpan irony have once again become a theme on Cake??s new album, Pressure Chief, the fifth of their career. In concert at the Orpheum October 7th, McCrea debuted “No Phone,” the second track off the new disc, to an audience filled with adoration for his trademark mordant social rants. “No Phone,” along with various other tracks off the new album, denounce technology and urban culture with a blander-than-usual strain of Cake??s signature...
...power chords that only add to the band’s changing face. The new sound is not only the fault of a bassline-in-hiding and weak hooks, but of the tragic diminution of McCrea’s powerful, rhythmic vocals. His clear baritone, once the centerpiece of Cake??s sound, is at times weakly melodic and sometimes buried in mediocre guitar riffs. Notable exceptions are the catchy “Waiting” and a cover of Bread’s “The Guitar Man,” as well as the impressive...
Loren Chen, a rising seventh grader at the Martin Luther King School and second-year Summerbridge student, said the favorite dessert he learned to make in his “Chemistry of Cake?? class was Mary Fields apple cake...
Though he passed on the stuffing during his Thanksgiving meal, he admits sheepishly that he “did indulge in a bit of birthday cake?? for dessert. Summers turned 49 on Sunday...
It’s hard, though, to advance beyond perfection, which was The Sea And Cake??s self-titled 1994 debut. That is, the band hasn’t changed much at all. Those who liked the formula The Sea And Cake have used from the beginning will probably enjoy One Bedroom—particularly the opening track “Four Corners” and its wonderfully tight instrumental, as well as John McEntire’s impressive drumming on “Hotel Tell...