Cake on Cake, I Guess I Was Daydreaming

reviewed by dave heaton

Cake on Cake, Helen Sundin's excursion into pretty, twinkling storybook dream-songs, continues in fine form with her latest album I Guess I Was Daydreaming -- a perfectly descriptive Cake on Cake title…as are the song titles "You Make My Heart Say Yes" and "We Want to Be Happy". For Sundin's luxurious songs deal with the twittering and lapses of the human heart. The words she sings so delicately and strangely over delicate and strange music – led by xylophones, keyboards, bells and the like – resemble aphorisms about love or life, and also impressions straight from her consciousness: letters, reassurances, thoughts.

It's music that comes from a truly unique place: in style, evocative of childhood lullabies, silent films, underwater motifs, chanteuse songs, funny tales, days and nights spent alone. But it's also universal in its concerns: people falling for each other, missing each other, striving to be happy. It's personal music in the best ways. Musically and lyrically it resembles one person's vision of the world, in its odd, beautiful splendor.

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