HarpsThe Sea and Cake · 2012

pitchfork

“It's fair to wonder why the first song from the Sea and Cake's new record, Runner, sounds so unerringly breezy when Sam Prekop kicks off by declaring that "the sky was never blue." It's one of the dreamiest, most comforting, and most awe-inspiringly mellow things that the Chicago band have ever done, which was perhaps influenced by Prekop's new "cavalier" attitude to songwriting, which starts with”