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Comfort Eagle

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 12 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 36 votes
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Album Info
Label: Sony
Release Date: 24 July 2001
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Alternative, Rock
Summary
This is the fourth album for the Sacramento-based alternative rockers best known for their hits "Never There" and "The Distance."
Also By This Artist: Pressure Chief
What The Critics Said
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Alternative Press
Comfort Eagle is infinitely smarter, smarmier and catchier than Weezer's Green Album. [Oct 2001, p.79]
Uncut
John McCrea's sense of subversion skates on the thin ice of their self-belittling grooves without ever quite toppling. [Jan 2002, p.131]
PopMatters
With Comfort Eagle mainly serving as a variation on the same themes that Cake keeps covering, it's tough to say for sure whether it's a better or worse album than anything else by the band.
Read Full Review >Sonicnet
Cake at times manage to counterbalance the smart-aleck cynicism with skilled musicianship, and when [John] McCrea drops the monotone bombast and actually sings, the songs really work.
Read Full Review >CDNow
Cake often veers close to the land of Dr. Demento -- but its catchy, quirky music always manages to pull back from the brink of madness by being a bit more substantial than your typical novelty tune.
Read Full Review >E! Online
It's mostly funny, but it also gets kind of same-y as these average Joes embrace their marching-band backgrounds and revel in self-deprecating humor.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
The sweetest moments come when frontman John McCrea breaks from the formula and extends his baritone beyond a single note, as on the harmony fueled ''Pretty Pink Ribbon'' and the yearning ''World of Two.''
Read Full Review >Spin Cycle
Just as little has changed on the radio front, so has Cake stuck with its market-proven formula on "Comfort Eagle."
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
When it works, it works brilliantly. [Dec 2001, p.120]
HOB.com
And the songs are catchy, yes. Just not so catchy that you're already singing along with them the first time you hear them.
Read Full Review >Blender
McCrea is still spinning wry, keenly observed stories, though the band has broadened its stylistic base some... [Aug/Sep 2001, p.121]
Rolling Stone
The best songs, particularly "Long Line of Cars" and "Pretty Pink Ribbon," exhibit a modern pop that is both mechanized and organic.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.4 (out of 10) based on 36 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Alex D gave it a10:
I think this album is dignified and pretty, especially pretty pink ribbon. The baritone part was awesome!
Pedro F gave it a10:
It's just great! nuff said.
Julie H gave it a10:
I became a fan of CAKE late in their history; this album was not new when I discovered it, but it is one of my favorites!!
Executioner Jones gave it a10:
The funkyest tightest rockers ever!
Matthew P gave it a10:
This album is smart and actually has depth.
Albert P gave it a10:
Saw Cake in Portland. Owned Fashion Nugget for years....now I have 4 Cd's of Cake....This one is unbelievable...Almost feel guilty having a burned copy of it.
yo momma gave it a10:
really good CD
