Name: Comma
Brand: Sam Prekop

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2020-09-11

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Sam Prekop

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Electronic

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Thrill Jockey

Sam Prekop is an American indie rock/electronic musician born in 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. With a career spanning over three decades, Prekop has established himself as a prominent figure in the music industry. He is best known for his work as the lead vocalist and guitarist of *The Sea and Cake*, a critically acclaimed indie rock band.

In addition to his contributions to *The Sea and Cake*, Prekop has also released several solo albums that showcase his diverse musical talents. His unique blend of indie rock and electronic elements creates a captivating sound that resonates with audiences worldwide.

Prekop's music draws inspiration from various genres, including post-rock, jazz, and experimental music. His intricate compositions often feature layered instrumentation and intricate melodies that captivate listeners from start to finish.

Thrill Jockey is an American independent record label that was established in 1992 by Bettina Richards, a former A&R representative at Atlantic Records. Originally based in New York City, the label relocated to Chicago, Illinois in 1995.
With over two decades of experience, Thrill Jockey has become a prominent force in the music industry. Known for its diverse roster of artists and commitment to artistic integrity, the label has consistently released groundbreaking and innovative music across various genres.
Thrill Jockey's catalog includes a wide range of critically acclaimed albums from both established and emerging artists. From experimental rock to electronic music, jazz to folk, the label continues to push boundaries and support unique voices within the industry.

Sam Prekop’s boundless imagination is guided by his strong sense of melody. For more than 25 years, as a solo artist or as part of The Sea and Cake, Prekop creates a singular sound inventive and warm. His distinctive vocals, guitar playing and work on modular analog synthesizers are inventive, delicate, and always bear his signature sense of melody. Comma finds Sam Prekop for the first time working extensively with beat programming, focusing his enveloping synthesizer pieces around a newfound rhythmic pulse.

Prekop’s wide-eyed sense of discovery guides his exploration of beat-driven music, pushing him to use rhythm as a narrative tool and to embrace electronic music’s romantic and emotional qualities. Park Line and Circle Line evoke the relentless forward motion of public transit and commuter routine, one propelled by juddering machine-drums, the other illuminated in glistening neon. Summer Places and title track Comma are utterly transportive in their intoxicating tropical futurism, aqueous electronic loops cascading over melodic percussion. September Remember is notable precisely for its lack of drum track, opening up the field of sound and obliterating all but the faintest after-echoes of skittering percussion in its astral melancholy. Approaching achieves an incredible depth of sound and feeling using minimal constituent parts, interlocking synth-lines revealing surprising new sonorities with every repetition.

With Comma, Prekop compiles an incredible breadth of ideas into a surprisingly coherent sound-world. Comma is Prekop’s modern minimal pop album that taps into the experimental heritage of the synthesizer. The album places Sam Prekop’s work squarely in the tradition of electronic music pioneers like Brian Eno and Yellow Magic Orchestra who brought together the unrestrained ambition of the avant-garde with the immediacy and accessibility of pop music.

Comma

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