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• Artist: The Sea And Cake
• Album: One Bedroom
• Label: Thrill Jockey
• Year of Release: 2003
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2004-01-17

I got into The Sea and Cake around The Fawn album and have never really looked back. I may not be the biggest fan and the fact that it's taken me a year to get around to reviewing One Bedroom may make that blatantly obvious. Anyway, One Bedroom is the crew's sixth full-length and I think might be one of their most accomplished efforts yet but it hasn't stood the test of time like a Nassau or their self-titled debut. After the Fawn, they took a bit of a break, with Sam Prekop and Archer Prewitt pursuing solo careers and with John McEntire's Tortoise project. I guess this is what happens when you start to get prolific in the musical territory. Fans of specific projects like Sea and Cake end up having to wait up to 3 years before new material is released. One Bedroom proves that the second 3 year wait is worthwhile. They are moving more and more into the pop territory with songs like "Hotel Tell" bordering on commercial possibilities. Sam's vocals are still sung with all the pop finesse in the world with John's drums clipping along at varying rates. They choose an interesting cover in David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" to close the album but supply us with a convincing effort. A couple tracks like "Mr. F" seem to be lacking something but tracks like "Try Nothing" more than make up for it. Before you are ready, the 10 track album is done in under 40 minutes. Let's see where this power group is in another three years. In the meantime, go back and rediscover their back-catalog. They have one like very few bands, 6 albums of solid material, never really hitting on the same territory.

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