Showroom of Compassion, released on January 11, 2011,[1] is the sixth full-length studio album from the band Cake. This is the band's first album since the release of Pressure Chief in 2004, the longest gap to date between two consecutive Cake studio albums.
Background and release
John McCrea stated that this album will sound "very different." He said he allowed acoustic piano on the LP, which he had never done because he thought it sounded "too classy." He also said this is the first time he has allowed reverb, which he thought too many bands used to sound "grandiose." [2]
On the Billboard 200, the album debuted at No. 1 with 44,000 copies, making it the lowest selling number for a number-one-album.
Despite it being the band's first top ten album, the album sold considerably less copies than previous albums that had debuted at lower positions but sold more during first week sales.[3] Despite this set back, the members of Cake enthusiastically thanked their fans for the success of the album.
Showroom of Compassion has so far been generally well received by music critics.[4]MediaCritic, a review aggregator website, gave the album an average score of 73% from eleven reviews, which indicates "generally favourable reviews".[4]
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