Cake (album)

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Cake
Trash can sinatras cake.jpg
Studio album by
The Trash Can Sinatras
Released25 June 1990
RecordedShabby Road, Kilmarnock
GenreIndie pop, jangle pop
Length39:31
LabelGo!/London[1]
ProducerJohn Leckie, Roger Bechirian[2]
The Trash Can Sinatras chronology
Cake
(1990) 		I've Seen Everything
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 stars[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[4]

Cake is the debut studio album by Scottish pop/rock band The Trash Can Sinatras, released in 1990.[5][6]

The album peaked at No. 74 on the UK Albums Chart.[7]

Production[]

The album was recorded at Shabby Road, the band's studio that was paid for with their record advance.[8]

Critical reception[]

Trouser Press called the album "exceptionally good" and "pristine-sounding," writing that the producers add "an occasional light brush of cool jazz to the folky spines of the band’s witty and agile tunes."[1] Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Loaded with bright splashes of guitar and vocal harmonies, the five-member Scottish group Trash Can Sinatras’ debut album is breezy pop with a backbeat and mercifully little attitude."[4] The Los Angeles Times called the album "tasty but hardly gripping."[9] The Washington Post wrote that Cake "crafts elegant neo-pop soundscapes from little more than vocal harmonies and chiming semi-acoustic guitar riffs and strums."[10] Time called it "an excellent brand of pub pop: simple, insinuating melodies, lyrics with propulsive good humor."[11]

Track listing[]

No.TitleLength
1."Obscurity Knocks"4:13
2."Maybe I Should Drive"3:40
3."Thrupenny Tears"5:15
4."Even the Odd"3:25
5."The Best Man's Fall"3:43
6."Circling the Circumference"2:40
7."Funny"4:16
8."Only Tongue Can Tell"3:45
9."You Made Me Feel"4:10
10."January's Little Joke"4:47

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Trash Can Sinatras". Trouser Press. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 8: MUZE. p. 246.CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. ^ "Cake - The Trash Can Sinatras | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Cake". EW.com.
  5. ^ "The Trash Can Sinatras | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ^ "I'm Your Fan". CMJ New Music Report. CMJ Network, Inc. October 11, 1999 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "TRASH CAN SINATRAS | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com.
  8. ^ "The Quietus | Reviews | Trashcan Sinatras". The Quietus.
  9. ^ "POP MUSIC REVIEW : Trash Can Sinatras Do It Their Way". Los Angeles Times. December 22, 1990.
  10. ^ Jenkins, Mark (February 27, 1991). "RECORDINGS" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  11. ^ "Critics' Voices: Feb. 11, 1991". February 11, 1991 – via content.time.com.


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