Devil & Deep Blue Sea

Cakekitchen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 1996)
• Original Release Date: October 1, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Merge Records
• ASIN: B0000019OP
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,661 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Old Grey Coast

2. Bald Old Bear

3. Prophet of the Underground

4. I Know You Know

5. You Make a God of Money

6. Baby I Luv You

7. Ballade of Oxford Circus

8. Everything Turned Orange

9. Take It Easy With Me

10. Escape to Fire Island

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best album by far, August 27, 2005

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John L Murphy "Fionnchú" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Devil & Deep Blue Sea (Audio CD)

The last three albums by Peter Jefferies' project The Cakekitchen are their finest, and while this one was recorded around the same time as "Everything" and "Stompin'"--more or less-and they all work well as a trilogy, I favor this one.

It opens with a wonderful, three-part song cycle that builds from delicacy to assertion back to seduction over about ten minutes, as if analogous for a real-life coupling, and I feel it's the most winning array of sounds its leader's put on disc. As a whole, perhaps because he signed to Merge, this album appears to benefit from a renewed direction that his earlier records (on various indie labels in the earlier 90s) lacked, accomplished as they were.

Previously, Jefferies had been seeking a mix of the more subdued Flying Nun pop with the post-punk that Jefferies' voice is suited for. Here, the album, while it honestly does not sustain all the way through the very strong first three song-punch, shows more attention to sonic detail, production (maybe more cash?) and sequencing. Like the act of love, the aftermath fades as the pace of the album slows after the initial excitement, but this langorous progression does not sink into somnabulance, but keeps you awake and curious by a more gentle, still insistent, nudging and tickling of your aural fancies until it subsides.