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- Summary: The eigth album for the indie rock band formed in Chicago was recorded in three months.
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 19 out of 25
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Mixed: 6 out of 25
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Intricate and ever-changing in style, The Sea and Cake give further proof why they've had such staying power.
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The Chicago quartet has been making this kind of music since the '90s, and its eighth album is much in the spirit of past releases.
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Car Alarm is essentially Everybody II; an album that subtly stretches the group’s formulaic parameters with rawer production and looser instrumentation but without cementing any concrete boundary-changes.
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Car Alarm feels different, though. What’s difficult to figure out, however, is whether that’s merely a feeling or whether there’s something actually, appreciably novel about the album.
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It’s at once simple, colorful, and cozy, but, if examined closely enough, can be appreciated on another level entirely--one that’s both casually sophisticated and quietly intelligent.
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FilterWhile the album-opener 'Aerial' and 'Weekend' are still easy on the ears, it's the all-too-short 'CMS Sequence' and 'Mirrors' that whet our appetite for the band's experimental side, which is achingly absent here. [Fall 2008, p.94]
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Maybe all of Car Alarm is about conflict, but Prekop glides and sighs over every vowel, making it difficult to hear what he’s saying or to detect a hint of tension beneath the gloss.
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