MY FRIEND THE CHOCOLATE CAKE
Don’t be confused by the name, Melbourne based band My Friend The Chocolate Cake do take themselves seriously. David Bridie and Helen Mountford (both of Not Drowning Waving fame) were in Auckland recently to promote the six piece band’s second album Brood, a predominantly dark collection of acoustic pop songs. David: “It definitely wasn’t written during a particularly high period in my life. We didn’t consciously plan for it to be a depressing record, but there’s this melancholy, introspective mood I think is great to write in. Hence the title Brood.”
Brood was recorded in Melbourne, and mixed by Jim Rondinelli (Big Star, Matthew Sweet) at Tom Verlaine’s New York studio. An international flavour is also brought to the record with a cover of Magazine’s ‘Song From Under The Floorboards’.
David: “That’s a great song we thought we could do.a version of.”
"And the opening line suits us well,” says Helen.
My Friend The Chocolate Cake: “111, angry and ugly as sin”? You decide.
JOHN RUSSELL
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Rip It Up, Issue 208, 1 December 1994, Page 8
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