The Sea & Cake - Everybody

The Sea and Cake are back with ‘Everybody’, the band's first full length in over four years.     The record finds the band continuing to perfect their singular brand of dreamlike, hot-buttered pop music that sounds delicately handcrafted, yet effortless all the same. Sheets of glowing guitar tones skip along propulsive percussion underscored by gently funky, introspective basslines, all adorned by breathlessly delivered lines of lyrical poetry.The band moves away from their standard sound on a number of tracks here, including the jittery ‘Exact to Me’ with its percussive guitar lines blending African highlife and rocksteady rhythms, and on the intimately spare ‘Lightning’, a song that went through several rewrites and, in the process, revealed the title of the album. "It was such a hard won battle, I don't think most tunes would have stood up to such abuse." The result is a hauntingly simplified song that serves as a fine centerpiece on this sprawling album.   For the first time in their 14 year career since their 1993 self-titled debut, the band has enlisted the recording efforts of someone other than McEntire, this time calling on the talents of Brian Paulson, a producer with a miles-long resume that includes work with Slint, Wilco, and TJ's own Angela Desveaux, among hundreds of others.The band plans to tour in support of this record, and has a few festival appearances in the works for the summer months. The Sea and Cake have made a record for Everybody.

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