Cake - Prolonging the Magic
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Artist: CakeEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1998-10-06
Music Label: Volcano
Soundtracks:
- Satan Is My Motor
- Mexico
- Never There
- Guitar
- You Turn The Screws
- Walk On By
- Sheep Go To Heaven
- When You Sleep
- Hem Of Your Garment
- Alpha Beta Parking Lot
- Let Me Go
- Cool Blue Reason
- Where Would I Be?
Free Music Notes for Prolonging the Magic
Free Music Review: A Bigger Better Slice of Cake
Hit: 4 Stars
"Prolonging The Magic" was almost like an afterglow from Fashion Nugget. The edginess mellowed into warm smoothness, the sarcasm burnished into whisky-warm wit. The charm was still obvious and, at first glance, little had changed. After all, the first thing you hear is a song called "Satan Is My Motor." Around the middle of the album is a delightful bit of nonsense called "Sheep Go To Heaven."
But then the little things start to stick in your mind, like the Country Western pedal steel that glides through "Walk On By." Or the jazzy underpinnings of "When You Sleep" (featuring Cake's secret weapon, Vincent DiFiore's trumpet). And the descriptively solid slice of life "Alpha Beta Parking Lot."
For those looking for the alt-rock ironic pop will find plenty here. There's the hit single of "Never There" and the equally good "You Turn The Screws." John McCrea's trademark sing-speak is one of the things that makes Cake such a dependable pleasure, and on those songs he works it to perfection. There may not be an arch cover (ala "Nugget's" take on "I Will Survive" or Pressure Chief's go at Bread's "Guitar Man"), but there is a straightforward - well almost - love song in "Let Me Go."
I'd probably alternate "Prolonging The Magic" as my second favorite Cake album next to "Pressure Chief," but as far as the mellowing of Cake after the departure of Greg Brown (who wrote "The Distance"), this is as close to perfection as the band ever got again.
Prolonging the Magic Poster
A kinder, gentler Cake? You'd never know it from listening to the opening track, a ditty with the rather unconventional title "Satan Is My Motor." But the truth is, most of Prolonging the Magic finds the Sacramento, California, quintet toning down the arch commentary of tracks such as "Rock and Roll Lifestyle" and "The Distance" from albums Motorcade of Generosity and Fashion Nugget. In its place is straight-ahead observational songwriting on "Alpha Beta Parking Lot" and "Guitar," and the naked, if still quirky, relationship commentaries "Where Would I Be?" and "Walk on By." Not to worry: The group's trademark humor is still in place on "You Turn the Screws" and "Sheep Go to Heaven," while touches of steel guitar and musical saw expand their already unusual sonic palette. As the title suggests, Cake seems capable of prolonging the magic a while longer. --Daniel DurchholzAlternative Rock Music CDs
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