Week in Review: Sea and Cake -- Day 2

i know what you're thinking, "Even the album covers look kind of the same." i know, isn't it strangely exotic and boring all at the same time? That's the Sea and Cake--like an island paradise, utterly serene and exotic-like but with no actual natives anywhere in sight. Oh, rest assured, this vaguely South American-influenced band (the tempo anyways) is entirely made up of mid-western white dudes. And of course, no one would mistake the Sea and Cake for world music. Nevertheless, the Sea and Cake display an affinity for Stan Getz/Antonio Carlos Jobim-style south-of-border refinement and ease. The Sea and Cake's sound reflects the band's appreciation of bossanova (an almost aristocratic style of jazz focused on melody and tempo then on improvisation and technique--basically bossanova is mood music at its finest) without aping it. This is music intended for a tranquil evening with that special person in one's life or maybe with oneself and a glass of wine. It ain't a party and it ain't exactly a bummer either. Undoubtedly romantic, it's not baby-making music either.

This Week in Review may be harder to deliver than i thought. Again, iTunes DRM rights are cock-blockin' my posts. But I'll soldier on this week the best I can.