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FilterJun 6, 2011Good music transcends throughout time, and The Sea and Cake is one of few that do it right.
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Nov 3, 2011[It] offers the comfortable familiarity of an old flannel shirt from the 90s but leaves you wondering if time has stood still for the Chicago post-rock quartet. It has not, as is apparent on the five follow-up songs.
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Q MagazineJun 21, 2011Brains and beauty come from the Chicagoan cult-rockers. [July 2011, p. 119]
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MojoJun 21, 2011Intriguing ninth album from Sam Prekop's Chicagoan pop exoticists. [July 2011, p. 103]
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May 16, 2011With The Moonlight Butterfly, the Sea and Cake are in no danger any time soon of fasting in light of their diet of quality white bread, and it's not like anybody who is purchasing a "mini-album" from this band expects otherwise.
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Dec 7, 2011The Moonlight Butterfly is yet another effortlessly charming work from The Sea and Cake.
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Under The RadarMay 27, 2011The Sea and Cake are just doing what they do, for a graceful 33 1/3 minutes, leaving fans wanting more of the same. [May 2011, p.81]
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May 16, 2011You may drift through recent Sea and Cake records more than you engage with them, but you still tend to want to drift for longer than a half-hour. Nevertheless it suggests the band is still master of the niche it's carved, and not out of new ideas just yet.
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May 16, 2011Even the single misstep here is a move forward, not one of stagnation. The band, 20 years on, sounds as energized as ever.
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May 16, 2011Per the majority of The Sea and Cake catalog, Butterfly is roundly solid: not great, but very good, with frequent moments of luminosity.
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May 16, 2011The Moonlight Butterfly won't allow The Sea And Cake to set the world on fire but with its reviving studio craftsmanship and exploratory attitude, it should happily smoulder in the ears of those who needed the band to deliver something just a little to the left of a self-defined centre.
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May 16, 2011It's enjoyable and I find myself anticipating the songs.