The Sea & Cake frontman Sam Prekop concedes "Car Alarm," the Chicago indie rock institution's eighth studio album, "does feel much more upbeat and as much in your face as the Sea & Cake can be." By ...

About half the songs came from their new album Any Day, which just came out last week, but the crowd clearly favored “the classics,” a term that clearly amused Prekop as well: “Here’s an oldie - I can ...

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As Pitchfork Media once said of the group Silkworm, consistency without spectacle can make for a tough sell. This axiom also applies to the Sea and Cake, but it has been mitigated somewhat by their ...

Sam Prekop was getting so much enjoyment out of making a solo album built on analog synthesizers a few years ago that he couldn’t quite wrap his head around the idea of making another guitar-based ...

Reliably excellent but emotionally detached, the Sea and Cake’s eighth album is of a piece with their first seven: They leave nothing to chance. Pristine set-opener “Aerial” and the elegantly gliding ...

Although Sam Prekop released another instrumental solo album, The Republic, back in 2015, we haven’t gotten a new album from the Sea And Cake since 2012’s Runner. Thankfully, that’s about to change.

Earlier this morning, Chicago indie rockers the Sea & Cake announced plans for a new album called Runner, the follow-up to last year's The Moonlight Butterfly. They also offered the first taste of ...

Singer Sam Prekop’s breathy vocals have anchored the Sea & Cake’s indie rock/jazz fusion over the course of the group’s 14-year career. He and guitar player Archer Prewitt craft a breezy version of ...

Chicago stalwarts The Sea and Cake have mastered their particular brand of sophisticated pop, making them one of the hidden treasures of the indie rock world. Chicago stalwarts The Sea and Cake have ...