The Return is a nine-track song-cycle composed for the full-length format

Future releases were at times more cerebral or more poppy

transcending the notion of a musical ensemble

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SEA AND CAKE - The Moonlight Butterfly CD Straight Edge The Return is a nine-trackIn January of this year Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt, John McEntire, and Eric Claridge reconvened at Chicago's Soma Electronic Music Studios to record their latest release The Moonlight Butterfly. This thirty three minute mini album finds the band delivering much more long form and cinematic pieces. The new songs lean upon the band's more experimental tendencies, taking time to stretch the forms and in some ways the new material relates to the way the