Comfort Eagle - Cake
  • Band Name: Cake
  • Record Label: Sony
  • Release Date: Jul 24, 2001
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70 out of 100

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9.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 42 Ratings

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  • Summary: This is the fourth album for the Sacramento-based alternative rockers best known for their hits "Never There" and "The Distance."

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Uncut
    80
    John McCrea's sense of subversion skates on the thin ice of their self-belittling grooves without ever quite toppling. [Jan 2002, p.131]
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  2. Alternative Press
    80
    Comfort Eagle is infinitely smarter, smarmier and catchier than Weezer's Green Album. [Oct 2001, p.79]
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  3. Sonicnet
    70
    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.
  4. HOB.com
    60
    And the songs are catchy, yes. Just not so catchy that you're already singing along with them the first time you hear them.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. AyshL.
    10
    Amazing.
  2. AlexD
    10
    I think this album is dignified and pretty, especially pretty pink ribbon. The baritone part was awesome!
  3. PedroF
    10
    It's just great! nuff said.
  4. BWarrick
    4
    NOT classic Cake. Gone are the beatuiful accoustics. Instead we have harsh electronics. Not horrible, but not what a Cake fan has come to expect. Buy another copy of Motorcade of Generosity instead.… Expand

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