Car Alarm (album)

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Car Alarm
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Studio album by The Sea and Cake
Released October 21, 2008 (2008-10-21)
Studio Soma Electronic Music Studios
Genre Indie rock, post-rock
Length38:30
Label Thrill Jockey
The Sea and Cake chronology
Everybody
(2007)		Car Alarm
(2008)		 The Moonlight Butterfly
(2011)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [3]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Spin favorable [6]

Car Alarm is a 2008 studio album by The Sea and Cake, released on Thrill Jockey.

The Sea and Cake American indie rock band

The Sea and Cake is an American indie rock band with a jazz influence, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Thrill Jockey American independent record label based in Chicago

Thrill Jockey is an American independent record label established in 1992 in New York City by former Atlantic Records A&R representative Bettina Richards.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Aerial"4:18
2."A Fuller Moon"4:08
3."On a Letter"3:45
4."CMS Sequence"1:06
5."Car Alarm"3:16
6."Weekend"2:42
7."New Schools"3:33
8."Window Sills"3:45
9."Down in the City"3:25
10."Pages"3:58
11."The Staircase"2:59
12."Mirrors"1:37

Personnel

Sam Prekop American musician

Sam Prekop is an American rock/pop musician in the band The Sea and Cake. He also has released four solo albums.

Archer Prewitt musician

Archer Prewitt is an American musician and cartoonist associated with the independent music scene in Chicago, Illinois.

John McEntire American musician

John McEntire is an American recording engineer, producer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist based in Chicago. He is a member of both Tortoise and the Sea and Cake.

Charts

Chart Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [7] 12

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References

  1. ↑ "Car Alarm by The Sea and Cake". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Bush, John. "Car Alarm - The Sea and Cake". AllMusic . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ Richardson, Mark (October 24, 2008). "The Sea and Cake: Car Alarm". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Newton, Elizabeth (October 20, 2008). "The Sea and Cake: Car Alarm". PopMatters . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ McBee, Wilson (October 16, 2008). "The Sea and Cake: Car Alarm". Slant Magazine . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ Zimmerman, Shannon (November 7, 2008). "The Sea and Cake, 'Car Alarm' (Thrill Jockey)". Spin . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ "The Sea and Cake - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
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