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The Sea and Cake: Runner
Runner will be available to stream on demand from Monday, September 10 through September 17, 2012.
By Eric J. Lawrence • • 1 min read-- By Eric J. Lawrence, KCRW Music Librarian and DJ
For nearly 20 years, the Sea and Cake have been one of the more distinctively reliable indie rock bands around, releasing quality albums at the rate of about one every other year. So the advent of a new record of theirs brings about a curious paradox of reactions: excitement, because it is a chance to hear new music from the band, combined with a bit of a shrug, because, heck, it’s just another Sea and Cake album. But to overlook any of them would be a mistake, as it would be to miss their latest, Runner.
Runner.” And Eric Claridge’s always throbbing bass and Archer Prewitt’s heady guitar figures adorn tracks like “New Patterns” that sound as close to Sonic Youth or even the Cars as they are likely to ever get (although I wonder what a Roy Thomas Baker-produced Sea and Cake record would sound like?)
Runner is always a cause for celebration. Life would be all the plainer without them.
Runner will be available to stream on demand from Monday, September 10 through September 17, 2012.