Customer Reviews

Who's Your New Professor

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If anything buy this album just for the song density. It is probably my favorite prekop song of all. Just a beautiful song....especially the 2nd half instrumental. I can listen to it 10 times over. The first song and last 4 songs of the album are all spectacular...pick it up.

I've always found solo projects both interesting and rewarding after first hearing the subject's group offerings. Pointedly, they allow a glimpse into the construction of the larger vehicle.
In considering Sam Prekop one can discern the richly sown rhythms he offers his fellow band mates of the Sea and Cake (with Archer Prewitt weaving intricate pop melodies as John McEntire percussively brings them both together).
With Who's Your New Professor, he continues to prove his worth as a master craftsman, offering eleven tracks of material steeped in exotic, soothing tones. Both a visual and audio artist, Prekop's work here shows definitive maturity and timeliness.
With the first few bars of track one, Something, the listener is exposed to Prekop's signature vocal melodies and near Bossanova rhythms. From there, the album progresses naturally and seamlessly. Though equally as masterful as his previous solo work, Who's Your New Professor seems both tighter in construction and slightly more exploratory.
All in all, a beautiful addition to a Sunday drive, a relaxing evening at home, or a fine bottle of red wine.

very chill mellow album, with an original sound. bought it a while back prior to itunes...so, yeah, check it out.

The following reviews show where reviews go wrong. When you listen to music you might not disect it into peices to hear it better. It's malpractice. If you liked Sam Prekop before, then he won't disappoint you. His voice is smooth and his style is his own. Good for him and I hope he keeps making great music.

This album is just my style. I must say that this is my first taste ever of Sam Prekop, so I didn't have any exposure to his earlier works to compare this to (I don't know if that's a good thing or not). Definitely good study music (or background music), but also equally good to listen to intently. However, I could see how this album may not suit everyone, as it's quite mellow.

Pancake_Repairman should never be trusted in his reviews. I highly doubt that any part of this recording is "worthless". His lack of taste and actual knowledge is astonishing. He has been bitter ever since Pitchfork rejected his application to be a writer on their site. In retaliation, Pancake has bashed almost everything released in recent memory. 4 stars may be a fair rating, but to say that any element of this record is "worthless" just shows Pancake making another stab at being "hip" and "musically relevant". He doesn't deserve ears.

This sounds so much like The Sea And Cake you have to wonder why he even bothered releasing it as a solo album. I like it much better than One Bedroom though. The first song, Something, reminds me a lot of the first The Sea And Cake album from way back in 1993. Yeah this next song is good stuff too. I'm into this a lot. I thought I'd lost interest in Sam Prekop's songwriting after One Bedroom, but these songs are as good as anything he's ever done. I'd forgotten how awesome Prekop's unique jazzy indie-pop could be. He's definitely on a par with any of the greatest songwriters of all time. I luv this music. Geoff Farina is Sam Prekop's bitch. Dot Eye has a bit of noisy distorted lead guitar, which I guess isn't something he'd do with The Sea And Cake. Two Dedications is a bit sparser, I don't like it quite as much as the first three songs, but I still like it a lot. Chicago People is a little bit less good, and Little Bridges, with it's wah-wah pedal, I barely like at all. Track 7 is even further downhill, complete blahness, it has what seems like is going to be a good chorus, then it takes an unexpected wrong chord change and ruins itself. Track 8 has a great handclap beat, and nice guitar or keyboard effect usage. Track 9 is a short, pointless piano instrumental. Track 10 is pretty good. Track 11 is good, but not as good as any of the first four tracks. The first four tracks are great, the rest of the album is basically completely worthless. This album rilly got my hopes up and then completely let me down. 7.5/10.