Oui
Studio album by
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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