Oui Music Cd

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Oui      Artist : The Sea and Cake      List Price : $14.98 USD        Your Price : $14.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2000-10-03      Studio : Thrill Jockey      Label : Thrill Jockey      Avg. Customer Rating : (29 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Oui      A very good album      Rating:      The reason is that it sounds great is because the album is kinda odd-yet very accessible-the vocals are so unique,The instrumentation is great, the performance is right on the money. The melodies and interplay amongst the various instruments has always held my attention. Oui sounds like the next step of a fine tuned, experimental, rock band. I'm always listening to and buying new music. I have generally liked most Sterolab songs so when I heard that Archer Prewitt had joined I figured I'd take a shot.The occasional electronic textures are cool, not in-the-way. I have been listening to this CD a lot lately. All in all this is a very good album. If you like other bands in this genre like Spoon, Smoke Ring Days, and Death Cab for Cutie, you will most likely like this. The Sea and Cake are the jazziest of the bunch.     Customer Reviews for Oui Cd      "Cool" lives on in Sea and Cake      Rating:       Miles Davis decades ago released an album called "Birth Of The Cool". We know what he meant. Not trendy, but smooth, ethereal, almost cosmic music that bebop honed to a fine point. It's nice to see that the "cool" lives on with The Sea and Cake, and no more so than on their fifth and greatest CD so far, "Oui". The extended intro to "Afternoon Speaker" sets the tone for a lilting dreamy listening experience that conjures images of smoky jazz clubs of the early fifties, showcases the deeply buried drum mix that propels but doesn't punish the groove, offers tasty guitar chording and a touch of modern electronica in their keyboards, and, the most important ingredient, the whisper of a voice provided by Sam Prekop. No other vocal style would work in this atmosphere. The music is so bouyant that any other style, including his earlier vocals on the debut "The Sea And Cake" and "The Biz" would be intrusive. Imagine this CD playing as you travel across a lonely stretch of interstate far away in the middle of the night, with the stars shining, perhaps a lazy waning moon following along for company. As your mind relaxes the music starts to lift off and carry you away. It isn't hard to imagine the vibes being delivered from some unseen but beautiful force in the dark sky as opposed to your CD player. Yes, "Oui" is that good. Transcendent without being overbearing like a lot of jazz can be, mainstream enough to appeal to pop sensibilities yet sophisticated and smart. The quietest moments of Steely Dan, perhaps "Aja"'s "Deacon Blues" or their later work "Two Against Nature" gives one a reference point where they leave off and the Sea and Cake take the most subtle points and build from. This is no clone band, though. It's wonderfully original despite its influences and a huge improvement over the first four efforts, even though the Sea and Cake fans seem to be divided between early and later works. Settle in and drift away. Editorial Reviews for Oui Audio Cd      Amazon.com      A kind of Chicago alt-scene supergroup, the Sea and Cake have never been a band lacking for critical notice. Lead songwriter Sam Prekop and bassist Eric Claridge hail from the brilliant and equally lauded Shrimp Boat, while drummer-producer John McIntire and guitarist Archer Prewitt arrived via Stereolab and the Coctails, respectively. That kind of pedigree guarantees a wealth of pointy-headed accolades. Of course, it's all true--those bands are indeed worthy sources of further musical discovery--but don't let all the name-dropping distract you from the beauty and accessibility of the Sea and Cake's music. Oui is an especially lovely lilt, a smooth, rolling hillside of light pop music, filtered through the band's trademark lens of delicate instrumentation and reveling in giant swaths of melody. "Afternoon Speaker" floats in like a jazzy little dream, all sweet nothings and free-form song structures, while "You Beautiful Bastard" slows down into a crawling cadence, Prekop's breathy tones trickling out of the headphones like ice melting in a spring thaw. If you haven't already, check out the worthy music for which this band's members are also known. Then forget about anything else, whip out this CD, and crank up the headphones. Beauty like this transcends cool hipsterism. --Matthew Cooke