As its title might suggest, the Sea & Cake's new video for "Weekend" arrives right on time for each of our individual weekends. It comes from their forthcoming eighth album Car Alarm, which follows last year's Everybody. The clip opens with a kid flipping into a body of water then trails a pack of teens outside the house (and its numbing video games) to a bike ride, candy (stealing, eating), gi...
"May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan." So go the early words of Don DeLillo's masterful postmodernist novel White Noise. But the desire could easily apply to both The...
The Sea & Cake's eighth album Car Alarm is out 10/21 via Thrill Jockey. A couple weeks ago, we posted the sun-kissed summertime video for electro-infused "Weekend." In this week's Drop, we debuted Car Alarm's expansive, affecting title track and asked S&C founder/frontman Sam Prekop about the song's shuffling lyricism as well as the pointlessness of actual car alarms: "Car alarms do not work. M...
Hey remember The Sea and Cake? Yeah we do too and are happy that they are still making music. They had an album out last year called Everybody and are looking to make more of a comeback with Car Alarm due later this month. 'Weekend' is the new single off that album and Tim Sutton [...]