Emerging on the Flying Nun label in the late 90s, Bressa Creeting Cake was heralded as a young band "brimming with ideas". Their self-titled 1997 debut album - made up of 15 tracks swinging between psychedelic and progressive rock (including single Nervous Wreck) received acclaim.
Having already made serious wobbles in the airwaves over student radio with a string of demo recordings. Stretching their prodigious talents into a full album s worth of tunes, this young band revel in the chance to show us exactly what they re capable of. And that, my friends, is a lot.
Right from the calypso swing of Palm Singing , Bressa Creeting Cake kick into the playful pop inventiveness that stands as the album s major mood. The vast array of styles on the album include plenty of psychedelic tinges and a hint of progressive rock, but the band don t get stuck in any one place for long over fifteen songs. And those frivolous moments like Rocky Mountain are balanced out by more earnest tracks such as You and I and They Write Words To People Who Are Dead.
Lyrically, both Edmund Cake and Geoff Creeting string words together with no small amount of flair. Whether it be the Hungarian/Mongolian hybrid language in Zenax, the imaginative leaps of syntax and imagery in Rocky Mountain and Egyptian Tanker , or the strange tales told in the likes of A Chip That Sells Millions or An Early Microscope , the use of words and meaning adds depth to the tunes here.
Geoff Maddock (then going by the stage name Geoff Creeting) and Joel Wilton, went on to form pop-folk band Goldenhorse alongside Kirsten Morelle. Ed Cake has released a solo album and produced Don McGlashan, Neil Finn and The Brunettes.
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