Graeme Jefferies - Messages For The Cakekitchen Alternative While working on Amalgam in

While working on Amalgam in 1989

Whether that be the raw spookiness and two guitar harmony of Breath and Crawl or the oddly compelling Skin Of My Teeth and Bodies all brushed with a scent of the macabre

deliberate acoustic ones (“Nothing That’s New”) and combinations of the two (“Prisoner of a Single Passion”)

All That That Brings

Band Members: Shayne Carter

Graeme Jefferies - Messages For The Cakekitchen Alternative While working on Amalgam inAlthough billed as a solo record, 1988's Messages for the Cakekitchen is effectively the first Cakekitchen album. Sparser and darker than the official band work to follow, its more in keeping with the homemade recordings of his Xpressway label brethren. At times, his vocals sound vaguely gothic (Reason to Keep Swimming), while the music alternates between tension filled electric guitar arrangements (All the Colours Run Dry), deliberate acoustic ones