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Oui - The Sea and Cake
Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Pitchfork
    90
    Oui is stunning easy listening in recession, but up close, it's genius. The production, the arrangements, the instrumentation, the electronics would sound cumbersome in the hands of the unexperienced, but the Sea and Cake fuse these elements with economy and care. If Oui doesn't erupt like an outright revolution, it's only because the band makes it look it too easy.
  2. Billboard
    90
    TSAC have spun their most lush and intricately produced long-player yet.... "Oui" wisely bumps the electronics to secondary status, giving the album a much more unified, live band feel missing from "The Fawn".... One of this year's most enjoyable albums.
  3. Mojo
    90
    Ultimately The Sea And Cake are just making timeless, faultless pop music.
  4. Nude As The News
    85
    Effortless, breathy pop music that you just have to close your eyes and smile to.
  5. All Music Guide
    80
    Quite possibly the finest of the group' s five albums to date.... A sophisticated pop pleasure from start to finish, Oui is the aural equivalent of a perpetual Indian summer.
  6. CDNow
    80
    Their simplest, softest sound yet. While 1997's The Fawn thrived in tender disarray, this 10-track outing sparkles with a warm and graceful confidence.
  7. Rolling Stone
    70
    On Oui, the Sea and Cake continue to pursue their instrumental excursions as they evolve decisively into an art-drone groove band.
  8. Magnet
    70
    Liquid guitar licks, bobbing bass lines, slow-tumbling vibes and lush strings float in and out of the mix, wrapping snugly around Sam Prekop's mellow croon. There's nothing life-changing here, but it's nice; and sometimes nice is enough. [#47, p.116]
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  9. The Wire
    70
    Oui may lack songs as vivid as those found on the [Sam] Prekop and [Archer] Prewitt records, but it has enough charm of its own to recommend it. [#201, p.63]
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  10. Spin
    50
    Music tailor-made for the world's hippest elevators. [Nov. 2000, p.200]
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  11. Trouser Press
    40
    A record which adheres closely to the formula but fails to generate any sort of spark from it.
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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
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  1. davepv
    8
    A high 8. Only because 'the biz' is a 10, and 'the fawn' a nine. (they should allow a 8.5) There is a strange perfection at work here. The music equivalent of a very smooth, mellow and sweet scotch-- you have no choice but to love it, as your belly is warmed. 'The Biz' blows your mind, this massages. Great stuff.… Full Review »
  2. ChipR.
    10
    Great TSAC. These guys are making easy for us to have ears.
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