Stompin Thru the Boneyard

Cakekitchen | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (March 6, 1995)
• Label: Merge Records
• ASIN: B0000019NQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Their last album's a great place to begin, 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: Stompin Thru the Boneyard (Audio CD)

Actually the first Cakekitchen album I heard, this is their last, they being Kiwi leader Peter Jefferies and his French drummer. For two musicians, they create a finely sequenced disc of aggressive tunes that belie the fact that it's pretty much Jefferies' nearly solo project by now; unlike some of his earlier Cakekitchen projects, this one exudes more confidence and leaps out from the speakers more assuredly than those released before the Merge label signed the duo.

It's therefore a pity that at this stage in the career, they apparently called it quits. This fits well into the college-alt radio format, while not so laid-back as the Cakekitchen's earlier 90s albums. Jefferies sounds like Bowie but less self-aware, and he uses the similarity with the Thin White Duke to explore darker corners than earier albums had--and to better effect, for the denser production compresses his songs into a tenser, more jittery delivery that suits Jefferies better than the janglier sound he can do well but that leaves him sounding more like the other New Zealand acts of the decade.

3.0 out of 5 stars Clarification...this is not Peter Jefferies, March 12, 2007

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Tracy "tracy68" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stompin Thru the Boneyard (Audio CD)

Just a quick point to clarify the other review here. Peter Jefferies is NOT part of The Cakekitchen. It's Graeme Jefferies. Anyway, a friend of mine gave me a whole lot of CDs of Peter and Graeme's music and I have to say that only a handful of songs really have stuck with me. For a devastatingly good Cakekitchen song, listen to Everything's Goimg to Work Out Just Fine. Nothing on this album resonates with me in quite the same way.