Brick Layer Cake starts and ends with Todd Trainer, drummer of such famed and crushing rock-and-roll bands Shellac, Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus. The Cake started out with Todd fooling around with his four track, and has boomed into a fully realized one-man rock band.

Steve Albini said it best, think of Nick Drake on downers fronting Black Sabbath, if Black Sabbath played only the good parts of their songs.