A Brief Historical Retrospective is a 1997 compilation album by The Sea and Cake, released only in Japan.
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It consists solely of tracks from the band's first two studio albums, The Sea and Cake (1994) and Nassau (1995), plus the unrelated song "Glad You're Right."
The actual band The Sea and Cake was later founded in reality and performed mostly as a progressive-rock band with jazz influences.
In this capacity Carrera has worked with bands like: Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Bright Eyes, Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, The Hold Steady and Hoover.
Black Sea | Mediterranean Sea | Baltic Sea | North Sea | Red Sea | Caspian Sea | Caribbean Sea | Adriatic Sea | Aegean Sea | South China Sea | Sea of Japan | Irish Sea | Westland Sea King | Dead Sea | Cake | Arabian Sea | Tyrrhenian Sea | Southend-on-Sea | East China Sea | Ionian Sea | Bering Sea | White Sea | Kara Sea | First Sea Lord | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | Dead Sea Scrolls | Cake (band) | British Sea Power | Tasman Sea | Sea Islands |
:In 2000, he released a solo album under the name Akito titled Hey Mister Girl! recorded with the members of The Sea and Cake, Tortoise and Wilco, and produced by John McEntire.
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In the early 2000s, they started collaborating with American musician John McEntire, who produced/engineered their albums May and December (2001), When You Were a Beauty (2002) and Climax (2003), When You Were a Beauty being recorded with the members of The Sea and Cake, Tortoise and Wilco.