Cake

Like beck, singer John McCrea of Cake slings non sequiturs like a nouvelle cuisine
short-order cook, offering images that can seem indulgent, if not pretentiously
disconnected. "You twist the knife, then go home to kiss your wife," he sings on "You Turn
the Screws" in a dry, David Byrne deadpan. "A bigger, better slice of what you like ...
flimsy as it is, it's open mike, punk rock/Red, white and blue." Soon enough, tho... More >