CAKE – Comfort Eagle (LP Vinyl)

Sacramento's CAKE built their reputation on a sound that refused easy categorization, threading John McCrea's deadpan baritone through trumpet-laced arrangements and Vincent DiFiore's signature brass lines that made "Short Skirt / Long Jacket" an unlikely MTV staple. Comfort Eagle captured the band at peak confidence, a dry, sardonic meditation on American consumerism and ambition that sounds just as sharp more than two decades later.