Car Alarm (album)

Car Alarm
Studio album by the Sea and Cake
Released	October 21, 2008 (2008-10-21)
Studio	Soma Electronic Music Studios
Genre	Indie rock, post-rock
Length	38:30
Label	Thrill Jockey
The Sea and Cake chronology
Everybody (2007) Car Alarm (2008) The Moonlight Butterfly (2011)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork	8.0/10 [3]
PopMatters	[4]
Slant Magazine	[5]
Spin	favorable [6]

Car Alarm is the eighth studio album by the Sea and Cake, released on Thrill Jockey.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
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

Japanese edition bonus track

No.	Title	Length
13.	"Also Ran"	2:59

Personnel

• Sam Prekop – vocals, guitar, keyboards
• Archer Prewitt – guitar, keyboards, steel drums
• Eric Claridge – bass guitar
• John McEntire – drums, keyboards, steel drums, percussion

Charts

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

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 . Archived from the original on April 9, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2017.

External links

• Car Alarm at Discogs (list of releases)
• Car Alarm at Thrill Jockey