Cage The Elephant Announce New Album 'Social Cues' Featuring Beck
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Neil Krug
Cage The Elephant will release their fifth studio album this spring.
'Social Cues' will arrive through Columbia Records on April 19, following up 2015's 'Tell Me I'm Pretty'. It was produced by John Hill (who's got Santigold and Florence and the Machine on his résumé) and recorded at Battle Tapes Recording, Blackbird Studio and Sound Emporium in Nashville, and the Village Recording Studio in Los Angeles. It also features Beck on cut Night Running.
Explaining how the new material was written about the breakdown of his relationship, frontman Matt Shultz said:
“It can be a vehicle to act out things that are hard to confront. When I'm creating I try to put myself in a reactive state of improvisational thought. I let images just arise in my mind and wait for it to evoke an emotional response and then when it does, I know I'm on to something. I was watching a lot of Fassbinder films, like World on a Wire and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. I was thinking about their beauty coupled with the graphic surrealism of Aronofsky.”
Head below to take a look at the video for the record's first single, Ready To Let Go, which Shultz directed, along with the album's tracklist and artwork.
The band are planning to support the new album with a tour, including stops in the UK, but no dates have been confirmed. For now, the only performance in their diary is a headline slot at Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, Georgia on May 4.
'Social Cues' tracklist:
1. Broken Boy
2. Social Cues
3. Black Madonna
4. Night Running (Cage The Elephant, Beck)
5. Skin and Bones
6. Ready To Let Go
7. House of Glass
8. Love’s the Only Way
9. The War is Over
10. Dance Dance
11. What I’m Becoming
12. Tokyo Smoke
13. Goodbye
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