The Sea & Cake

With Swearing at Motorists, The Multiple Cat

Doors 8:00 PM

The Sea and Cake is an indie rock band with a jazz influence based in Chicago, IL, consisting of members Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt, and John McEntire. The band formed in the mid 1990s from members of The Coctails, Shrimp Boat, and Tortoise. The band relies on electronic sound sources, most evident after their 1997 album, The Fawn. Their most recent album, Runner, brings freshness and vitality, and the ease and musicianship that only comes with experience. Runner, initiated as the companion piece to 2011’s The Moonlight Butterfly, uses that album’s auditory experimentations as a starting point for a new process of writing and recording, becoming something completely new. Songs that began as synthesizer experiments in Sam Prekop’s home studio were reimagined by the other members, and eventually recorded and mixed by John McEntire at Chicago’s Soma Studios. The result is an album that feels like a private travelogue–it’s as if you start listening in one place, and end up some place else. Sam Prekop notes, “The songs were feeling pleasantly out of control and I was hearing music unlike other material I had come up with before.”