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Showroom of Compassion is Cake's first album of new material since 2004's Pressure Chief. The album was recorded over a mammoth two & a half years and was produced and engineered by the band themselves at their own solar electric powered studio in Sacramento, California.
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After 7 years or so, the new Cake album doesn't disappoint. It's up there with Fashion Nugget and Comfort Eagle. Although not exactly breaking new ground, there is progression. A bit of vocal effects("Federal Funding" - surely Primal Scream will cover this at some point), some piano (on the fantastic instrumental "Teenage Pregnancy")or bonus string quartet ("Italian Guy"). With lyrics that mean something (whether you agree with the occasional bit of politics or not) and tunes that slowly drill their way into your brain ("Sick of You" is infuriatingly catchy), Cake do what they do best: write great songs. Yes, they still have the same gnarly guitar sound, the lone trumpet, the deadpan vocals, random back-of-the-studio shouts, the vibraslap and driving basslines. So what? They sound great.
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I love CAKE, really I do... I cannot play guitar, drums or trumpet, write music, OK I got grade 5 piano BUT I know a good album when I hear one and I'm afraid this isn't one from CAKE. I really wanted it to be good like Fashion Nugget or Pressure Chief, but I find this album hard to get into and it's unlikely to get played much by me. Sure there are a couple of good tracks but there aren't enough of them. CAKE have always been fun, why the politics, why open an album with Federal Funding? Earlier albums are loaded with solid tunes with clever and irreverent lyrics about cars, love and girls (they remain the only band I've heard to crowbar 'testicles' into a song's lyrics). Fans will disagree (obviously), but if you want to get into CAKE try the early stuff it's great, this is below their high standards. Sorry..... don't hate me.....
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Great album - heard "Long time" whilst over in France and had to get the album, never heard of them before but love the eclectic nature of the songs.
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