Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Cake - Showroom of Compassion


Artist: Cake

Album: Showroom of Compassion

Label: Upbeat

Release Date: 11th January 2011

Rating: 4.5 / 5

  Crunchy guitars and political mockery open up this fine album from the quirky group that have been together for some 20+ years.  "Teenage Pregnancy" is a gloomy, tenuous track- perhaps appropriately titled.  The very snappy "Sick of You" follows the gloom with a playful tale of simply wanting to fly away, love lost being the theme here.  Always twisting lyrics that envelope themselves creates a fantastic musical voyage here.  "Italian guy" adds a funky, bouncy string arrangement.  Lots of horns and seemingly odd instruments cover almost every track, just a wonderful array of aural adversity.  Great album with wicked fun lyrics and my only complaint is that it only has eleven tracks, just not enough Cake to satiate this appetite.

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