Everybody

This album is like sunlight coming through the window on a Saturday morning. Happy California driving music.

Cool, comforting crooning & imagery. Great ambient jazz rock fusion. A band that is an indie legend i'n my opinion.. That really treads an enveloping artistic flange. Carlo M

Ok. I first started listening to this band two years ago and it still sticks with me. This album is a good one to start w/. I think they deserve your money because there is some really crispy, creative stuff going on. A bit jazzy with the chords, yet simple and fresh. Just download this album and listen to it while waking up on a brisk summer morning and it will be all good. I picture listening to Too Strong while drinking a delicious cappuccino in july. Coconut, middlenight and transparent are the best tracks in my opinion. check it out if you're into it!

'crossing line' is such a good track! chill music for the happy heart.

The Sea and Cake have been one of my favorites for years. And this new release, almost 4 years in the making, will NOT disappoint. TSAC are masters of smoothly layered jazz arrangements, with subtle twists that make all the difference, not to mention the soft beauty of Sam and Archer's vocals. Buy this, then check out their earlier works as well. Always pleasing - the perfect "long-drive-at-night" music...

"Everybody" is the album that has done it for me in terms of making me a Sea and Cake fan. I feel like previouse releases are hit or miss in terms of good and bad tracks. Well this album has brought all the good tracks into ten, amazing songs. This is why I don't think TSAC has released this album before, as stated by other reviewers. This album's motifs involve more upbeat, faster, and more pure substantial songs than previously produced by The Sea and Cake, while still achieving that same innovative sound that we all keep coming back for.

They've done it -- they tapped in to their original style and did it with today in mind. Fresh!

so relaxing and like, good. Sea and Cake is really awesome

EVERYBODY is, suitably, perhaps the most accessible Sea and Cake record since their eponymous debut. It's inclusive experimental alt-rock, you might say. I challenge anyone to find a record in recent years that has a better first five tracks. "Up on Crutches" establishes (or re-establishes, for the initiated) the signature S&C sound, before "Too Strong" launches into something more propulsive and, at the same time, sprawling -- reminiscent of the early gem "Showboat Angel." The song cycle builds all the way to "Coconut," whose painterly lyrics are almost accessible enough for Seventies FM radio, like an early Eagles track from a lost weekend, remixed by Tortoise. There's so much to be seduced by...the airy production, the drenched percussion, the wispy vocals, and the spiderwebbed guitar lines, scooped together into songs that are memorable, melodious, still surprising on a tenth listen. Highly, highly recommended.

It's great to have Sam Prekop & Company back after two disappointments (Sam's last solo CD and One Bedroom). The Sea & Cake are likely indie music's most overlooked talent, and here they remind us of why they have held this title for over a decade. "Everybody" is a return to form, so to speak, albeit less original than its predecessors. After all, "lightning" is merely "the fawn" updated, and "too strong" is hard to remove from its grandfather, "soft and sleep" from the band's early album "Nassau". But we're smiling anyway. If the band continues this momentum, they may return to the melodic and rhythmic complexity of their best record, "The Biz". That would mean letting John McIntyre play a fill or drum roll here and there, and generally getting jiggy with things. Oh, dare to dream.