Group performs on September 16 at Jacobs Pavilion
The ‘90s produced grunge and nu-metal rock acts that wallowed in dark emotions. And the ‘90s also produced Cake, an outlier that sprinkled mariachi-style horns into quirky singles such as “The Distance” and “Short Skirt/Long Jacket.”
Cake, however, never went away. The band self-released its first album but then signed to Capricorn Records, a label mostly known for Southern rock and jam bands, for its second release,. That album would deliver the monster hit “The Distance” and solidify the band as outsiders with platinum sales potential.
Capricorn imploded, and the group wound up in the grips of a major label that McCrea says found the band’s approach baffling. The group’s last studio album came out in 2011, but that doesn’t mean the musical well has gone dry. In the past five years, Cake issued a cover of “Age of Aquarius” and “Sinking Ship,” a song that amplifies McCrea’s latent pessimism with lacerating guitars and droll vocals. McCrea says he tries to avoid playing the latter because “it’s so negative, I can’t do it right now.”
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