Three-Layer Cake: Sounds the Color of Grounds LP (Otherly Love, 2025)
July 17, 2025 at 8:18 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Three-Layer Cake: Sounds the Color of Grounds LP
Three-Layer Cake brings together legendary Minutemen bassist Mike Watt as well as percussionist Mike Pride and guitarist/banjoist Brandon Seabrook, both of whom, like Watt, have been in too many bands to list. Watt’s bass tone and close-miked narratives (on the first track of each side, and “The Lonely Sail”) are unmistakable, but these songs generally exist in a free-flowing improv realm instead of anything overtly resembling punk. Some of it is mesmerizingly trippy, like the echoed drumming and slashing riffs of “The Hasta Cloth”. Other tracks have nice, ambling grooves, and feel casual but not really jammy. “Tchotchkes” is a warped reggae exotica tune with marimbas, which somehow works. “Lickspittle Spatter” is the album’s most drum-heavy eruption, making it sound like something’s cooking, like the title suggests.
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