Bio

Bressa Creeting Cake is an Auckland three-piece who did well in the late 90s with their debut self titled release from Flying Nun.

All too rarely does a musical group come along with all the right bits intact and just enough of the wrong bits there to make you sit up and really take notice.

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.

The overall impression left by Bressa Creeting Cake is of a young band brimming with ideas, delivering more than enough here to keep the listener enthralled and returning to the album again and again.

The members of Bressa Creeting Cake have now moved onto new projects in The Subliminals & Goldenhorse.

Band Members:
Joel Bressa (drums, percussion, tabla, vibraphone)
Geoff Creeting (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboard, mandolin, vibraphone)
Edmund Cake (vocals, guitar, percussion)

Links

• Facebook Page
• Bandcamp Page