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The Sea and Cake: Everybody

Read "Everybody" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


A quattro anni di distanza dal precedente One Bedroom, The Sea and Cake si confermano una delle band più rassicuranti della scena chicagoana, grazie alla perfetta miscela tra le personalità dei suoi componenti, a partire dal felice contrasto tra la svagatezza pop di Sam Prekop e l'incisività di Archer Prewitt. Gli ingredienti sono quelli di sempre, questa volta senza brillantini digitali a baluginare nelle trame delle dieci canzoni: un pop-rock evoluto e spugnoso, in grado di metabolizzare il calore della ...

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Sam Prekop: Who's Your New Professor

Read "Who's Your New Professor" reviewed by Paul Olson


Chicago singer/songwriter Sam Prekop steps away from his group The Sea and Cake for Who's Your New Professor, his second solo album. Gone are the West African influences of Prekop's eponymously titled 1999 solo CD; instead, Prekop opts for an austere, even airier group sound. Fortunately the group is a great one, comprised as it is of drummer Chad Taylor, cornetist Rob Mazurek (who together make up the Chicago Underground Duo), Sticks & Stones bassist Josh Abrams, and Sea and ...


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