Oui
Studio album by
The Sea and Cake
ReleasedOctober 3, 2000
GenreIndie
Post rock
Length40:34
LabelThrill Jockey
The Sea and Cake chronology
The Fawn
(1997)		 Oui
(2000)		 One Bedroom
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert Christgau(dud)[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
Pitchfork Media9.0/10[5]
Spin5/10[6]

Oui is the fifth album by The Sea and Cake, released on Thrill Jockey.[7][8]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "lackluster," writing that it "adheres closely to the formula but fails to generate any sort of spark from it."[9] The Chicago Tribune called it the band's "most delicately engrossing work, its charms illustrated in tiny moments of bliss such as the ghostly, Jobim-like fade of 'The Colony Room' or the lush yet fragile orchestrations of 'Seemingly'."[10] SF Weekly deemed it "an unfortunate downtempo detour."[11]

Track listing

  1. "Afternoon Speaker" – 4:18
  2. "All the Photos" – 3:19
  3. "You Beautiful Bastard" – 5:54
  4. "The Colony Room" – 4:10
  5. "The Leaf" – 4:24
  6. "Everyday" – 3:01
  7. "Two Dolphins" – 3:45
  8. "Midtown" – 2:56
  9. "Seemingly" – 4:46
  10. "I Missed the Glance" – 4:01

References

  1. ↑ "Oui by The Sea and Cake" – via www.metacritic.com.
  2. ↑ Oui at AllMusic
  3. ↑ "Robert Christgau: CG: The Sea and Cake". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 319.
  5. ↑ "The Sea and Cake: Oui". Pitchfork.
  6. ↑ "Reviews". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. November 5, 2000 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ "The Sea and Cake Oui". exclaim.ca.
  8. ↑ Buckley, Peter (February 5, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ "Shrimp Boat". Trouser Press. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  10. ↑ Kot, Greg (3 November 2000). "LITTLE BITS OF BLISS". chicagotribune.com.
  11. ↑ "The Sea and Cake". SF Weekly. February 12, 2003.



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