Downtown Puff

Downtown Puff
Studio album by
Edmund Cake
Released3 June 2004
GenreIndie pop
Length36:39
LabelLil' Chief Records
ProducerEdmund Cake
Lil' Chief Records chronology
Songbook
(2004) 		Downtown Puff
(2004) 		Mars Loves Venus
(2004)
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The New Zealand Herald [1]

Downtown Puff is a solo album by Edmund Cake. Although multi-instrumentalist Cake played various instruments and performed vocals on the album,[2] other musicians and singers on the album include Anna Coddington, Neil Finn and Tim Finn.[3] Geoff Maddock and Joel Wilton of Cake's short-lived earlier band and Flying Nun phenomenon Bressa Creeting Cake, now of Goldenhorse, also appear on the album.[4]

McWilliams wrote and recorded many of the songs on the album in a studio on Gore Street - a red-light area in Auckland.[5][6] According to a biography of Cake, the album was influenced by this environment, including "incessant street brawls, strip club pop, and Doobie Brothers hits played by the covers band in the 24-hour bar downstairs."[6] The album includes instrumental tracks such as "Airshow" and "You're Watching Me", and vocal tracks such as "Secret Girl" described by McWilliams as a comedy song that 'came out serious'.[2]

  1. ^ "Edmund Cake: Downtown Puff", The New Zealand Herald, 18 June 2004
  2. ^ a b "Radio show podcast – New Zealand musician Edmund Cake". Wellington City Libraries. 30 July 2010. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Bressa Creeting Cake". Aphoristic Album Reviews. 4 May 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Goldenhorse - AudioCulture". www.audioculture.co.nz. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  5. ^ "The Genius of Edmund Cake". Stuff. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Edmund Cake - New Zealand Musicians & Bands". www.muzic.net.nz. Retrieved 6 June 2020.