''A Brief Historical Retrospective'' is a 1997

compilation album A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one Performing arts#Performers, performer or by several performers. If the recordings are from ...

The Sea and Cake The Sea and Cake is an American indie rock band based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. As part of the Chicago school of post-rock, the group formed in the mid-1990s from members of The Coctails (Archer Prewitt), Shrimp Boat (Sam Prekop ...

, released only in Japan. It consists solely of tracks from the band's first two studio albums, ''

'' (1994) and '' Nassau'' (1995), plus the unrelated song "Glad You're Right".

Track listing

1997 compilation albums The Sea and Cake albums {{1990s-indie-rock-album-stub