Album Review: My Friend The Chocolate Cake - Best Cake In Show

The wonderfully idiosyncratic chamber orchestra that is the Cake is possibly best experienced live, to at least try and follow the thread as they flip from heat-hazed instrumentals – like the opening Seek –  via David Bridie's pensive thought processes, such as Salt, to string-driven gypsy dervish folk-dances. Then they have an interval – and repeat. This selection cherrypicks from 25 years of shows, but remains so identifiably them throughout. They've never sounded like they're not enjoying each other's company and musical tangents, even if discussing Welsh nationalism (Aberystwyth) or simply jigging in a Muckheap.