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August By Cake
Rock · 2017 · 32 tracks · 1h 11m

August By Cake

Guided by Voices

A sprawling 32-track double album that trades the band's signature basement hiss for a warm, muscular studio glow. Spontaneous, melodic, and relentlessly creative.

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It's a 32-course meal of perfect rock hooks that somehow never gets too full.

A restless, celebratory explosion of melodic ideas that feels both massive and intimately handmade.

August By Cake · vs · Guided by Voices
Analog Warmth+0.9σ

The production is pushed a touch harder into analog warmth than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 32 Tracks · 1h 11m
01
5° on the Inside
2:28
01
It's Food
2:53
02
Generox Gray ®
1:58
02
Cheap Buttons
2:11
03
When We All Hold Hands at the End of the World
2:02
03
Substitute 11
2:31
04
Goodbye Note
2:51
04
Chew the Sand
3:44
05
Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean
1:59
05
We Liken the Sun
2:09
06
The Laughing Closet
1:32
06
Fever Pitch
1:01
07
Absent the Man
1:36
07
Deflect Project
2:33
08
Packing the Dead Zone
2:51
08
Upon the Circus Bus
2:20
09
Try It Out (It's Nothing)
1:47
09
What Begins On New Year's Day
1:59
10
Overloaded
3:32
10
Sentimental Wars
2:48
11
Keep Me Down
2:33
11
Circus Day Holdout
2:02
12
West Coast Company Man
1:55
12
Whole Tomatoes
1:12
13
Warm Up to Religion
1:52
13
Amusement Park Is Over
2:18
14
Golden Doors
1:44
14
High Five Hall of Famers
2:08
15
Sudden Fiction
2:41
15
The Possible Edge
2:01
16
Hiking Skin
1:56
16
Escape to Phoenix
2:06
Moments Worth Waiting For
The triumphant, sky-high vocal melody that anchors the opening of 5° on the Inside.
The unexpected shift to a democratic songwriting approach where each band member takes a lead vocal turn.
The way Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean collapses into a brief, perfect psych-pop miniature.
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