The Sea and Cake
Simon Reynolds, Rolling Stone, 16 November 1995
THE SEA and Cake are crammed into a van parked on a busy side street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. They're here as opposed to somewhere more congenial because the guys are, perhaps forgivably, fearful lest the van and all their gear be ripped off. In a few hours the band will be sound-checking further downtown at Wetlands in preparation for its spot at the top of a bill that includes Pram and Laika from the ultracool British label Too Pure. This impressive avant-rock showcase will later draw a sweaty sardine crush of hipsters.
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