Everybody (The Sea and Cake album)

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Everybody
Album-Sea&Cake Everybody.jpg
Studio album by
the Sea and Cake
ReleasedMay 8, 2007 (2007-05-08)
StudioKey Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan
Soma Electronic Music Studios in Chicago, Illinois
Genre Indie rock, post-rock
Length36:32
Label Thrill Jockey
The Sea and Cake chronology
Glass
(2003)		Everybody
(2007)		 Car Alarm
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Exclaim! favorable [3]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [4]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Spin favorable [6]
Stylus Magazine B [7]

Everybody is the seventh studio album by the Sea and Cake, released on Thrill Jockey. [8]

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Everybody received an average score of 74% based on 24 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Jason Crock of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.6 out of 10, saying, "It's been four years since their last album, and Chicago's post-rock heyday has past, but the Sea and Cake remain relevant simply by becoming more transparent." [4] Michael Franco of PopMatters gave the album 6 stars out of 10, stating that "this is the most rock-based album the Sea and Cake have made, but it still sounds modern, sophisticated, and ultra-cool." [5] Vish Khanna of Exclaim! called it "a mature yet adventurous effort by the Sea and Cake." [3]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Up on Crutches"3:36
2."Too Strong"2:52
3."Crossing Line"2:46
4."Middlenight"3:32
5."Coconut"2:54
6."Exact to Me"3:39
7."Lightning"4:11
8."Introducing"3:22
9."Left On"4:53
10."Transparent"4:47
Japanese edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Mis"2:57
12."Breathless"3:59

Personnel

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [9] 9
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [10] 32

References

  1. 1 2 "Everybody by The Sea and Cake". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ Bush, John. "Everybody - The Sea and Cake". AllMusic . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Khanna, Vish (April 19, 2007). "The Sea and Cake - Everybody". Exclaim! . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Crock, Jason (May 8, 2007). "The Sea and Cake: Everybody". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  5. 1 2 Franco, Michael (May 8, 2007). "The Sea and Cake: Everybody". PopMatters . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  6. ↑ Young, Jon (June 11, 2007). "The Sea and Cake, 'Everybody' (Thrill Jockey)". Spin . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  7. ↑ Rosenberg, Tal (May 18, 2007). "The Sea and Cake - Everybody". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on February 4, 2010. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  8. ↑ Ciminelli, Eddie (January 2, 2008). "Everybody Enduring: An Interview with Sam Prekop". PopMatters . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  9. ↑ "The Sea and Cake - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  10. ↑ "The Sea and Cake - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
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