Oui (album)

Oui
Studio album by the Sea and Cake
Released	October 3, 2000
Genre	Indie Post rock
Length	40:34
Label	Thrill Jockey
The Sea and Cake chronology
The Fawn (1997) Oui (2000) One Bedroom (2003)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[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]}

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

References

1. "Oui by The Sea and Cake" – via www.metacritic.com.
2. Oui at AllMusic
3. "Robert Christgau: CG: The Sea and Cake". www.robertchristgau.com.
4. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 319.
5. "The Sea and Cake: Oui". Pitchfork.
6. "Reviews". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. November 5, 2000 – via Google Books.
7. "The Sea and Cake Oui". exclaim.ca.
8. Buckley, Peter (February 5, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN   9781843531050 – via Google Books.
9. "Shrimp Boat". Trouser Press. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
10. Kot, Greg (November 3, 2000). "LITTLE BITS OF BLISS". chicagotribune.com.
11. "The Sea and Cake". SF Weekly. February 12, 2003.

External links

• Video for "The Colony Room"