CAKE

Out of Northern California’s flat, dry central valley, Cake formed in the early nineties as a somewhat antagonistic answer to grunge. Best-known for their ubiquitous hit The Distance, Cake epitomised the postmodern, irony-drenched aesthetic of '90s geek rock. Their sound freely mixes and matches pastiches of widely varying genres, white-boy funk, hip-hop, country, new wave pop, jazz, college rock, and guitar rock.