Oui (album)

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Oui
Ouialbum.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 3, 2000
Genre Indie
Post-rock
Bossa nova
Length40:34
Label Thrill Jockey
The Sea and Cake chronology
The Fawn
(1997)
Oui
(2000)
One Bedroom
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau-dud.svg [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork Media 9.0/10 [5]
Spin 5/10 [6]

Oui is the fifth album by The Sea and Cake, released on Thrill Jockey. [7] [8]

Contents

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "lackluster," writing that it "adheres closely to the formula but fails to generate any sort of spark from it." [9] The Chicago Tribune called it the band's "most delicately engrossing work, its charms illustrated in tiny moments of bliss such as the ghostly, Jobim-like fade of 'The Colony Room' or the lush yet fragile orchestrations of 'Seemingly'." [10] SF Weekly deemed it "an unfortunate downtempo detour." [11]

Track listing

  1. "Afternoon Speaker" – 4:18
  2. "All the Photos" – 3:19
  3. "You Beautiful Bastard" – 5:54
  4. "The Colony Room" – 4:10
  5. "The Leaf" – 4:24
  6. "Everyday" – 3:01
  7. "Two Dolphins" – 3:45
  8. "Midtown" – 2:56
  9. "Seemingly" – 4:46
  10. "I Missed the Glance" – 4:01

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