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Track List
01) Broken Boy
02) Social Cues
03) Black Madonna
04) Night Running
05) Skin and Bones
06) Ready to Let Go
07) House of Glass
08) Love's the Only Way
09) The War Is Over
10) Dance Dance
11) What I'm Becoming
12) Tokyo Smoke
13) Goodbye
01) Broken Boy
02) Social Cues
03) Black Madonna
04) Night Running
05) Skin and Bones
06) Ready to Let Go
07) House of Glass
08) Love's the Only Way
09) The War Is Over
10) Dance Dance
11) What I'm Becoming
12) Tokyo Smoke
13) Goodbye
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2019
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Social Cues is the fifth studio album by American rock band Cage the Elephant. Announced on January 31, 2019, the album was released on April 19, 2019.
History
On November 26, 2018, the band announced on Twitter that their new album was "Done. Mixed. Mastered." On January 31, 2019, the band officially released "Ready to Let Go", the first single from Social Cues.
Social Cues received generally positive reviews upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out 75 of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Social Cues has an average rating of 6.8 on AnyDecentMusic? and 67 on Album of the Year.
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Having spent their glittering career dancing through different sounds, Cage The Elephant truly find themselves on this mature, widescreen fifth album
Never an easy band to pin down, Cage The Elephant have danced between grunge, blues and arena rock before the more mature depth and diversity of last album ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ saw them take home a Grammy. In the wake of a divorce and in more exploratory mood than ever, can CTE’s Matt Shultz finally lead the band to what they really are?
Opener ‘Broken Boy’ blows the album wide open with a Bowie-esque blast of space-glam, fuelled by a very modern skittering paranoia, before the title track lets a little more oxygen back in the room with some psychedelic theatre akin to MGMT. “I’ll be in the backroom, tell me when it’s over,” sings Shultz, “I don’t know if I can play this part much longer”. Quite right, as the shift from previous records and the different gears they travel through on ‘Social Cues’ really show off Cage The Elephant’s chameleon prowl between what this band can really be. Perhaps never more so than on the pop-flecked art-rock of ‘Night Running’ where the band seem to blend as one into featured artist Beck.
‘Ready To Let Go’ and ‘Dance Dance’ both pick up the thread of CTE’s bluesy, garage rock roots, but with more of a graceful control as Shultz paints a profound landscape over his recent divorce: “The sun went down over Pompeii, on both sides the vow was broken”. That raucous energy carries too through spikey post-punk of album highlight ‘House Of Glass’, but the band’s undersung widescreen approach and maturity takes centre stage on the string-soaked swoon of ‘Loves The Only Way’ as Shultz preaches, “Look out for yourself, it’s all the rage”.
READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Matt Shultz, Cage The Elephant
‘The War Is Over’ and ‘What I’m Becoming’ both have that sombre and smokey lounge act feel of The Last Shadow Puppets or Mini Mansions, but just revisit the more refined moments on ‘Melophobia’ and ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ and you’ll realise that it’s a guise that Cage The Elephant have carried within them all along. “Seems like yesterday I was a child, just a ripple in the folds of time, I wish you well, I want to see you smile, it’s all right,” pines Shultz on the tender and intimate closer ‘Goodbye’ – another ode to the breakdown of his marriage. When all else fails, all you’re left with is yourself. This is the sound of Cage The Elephant exploring every corner of what they are.
SOURCE: https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/cage-the-elephant-social-cues-review
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Social Cues is the fifth studio album by American rock band Cage the Elephant. Announced on January 31, 2019, the album was released on April 19, 2019.
History
On November 26, 2018, the band announced on Twitter that their new album was "Done. Mixed. Mastered." On January 31, 2019, the band officially released "Ready to Let Go", the first single from Social Cues.
Social Cues received generally positive reviews upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out 75 of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Social Cues has an average rating of 6.8 on AnyDecentMusic? and 67 on Album of the Year.
User Album Review
Having spent their glittering career dancing through different sounds, Cage The Elephant truly find themselves on this mature, widescreen fifth album
Never an easy band to pin down, Cage The Elephant have danced between grunge, blues and arena rock before the more mature depth and diversity of last album ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ saw them take home a Grammy. In the wake of a divorce and in more exploratory mood than ever, can CTE’s Matt Shultz finally lead the band to what they really are?
Opener ‘Broken Boy’ blows the album wide open with a Bowie-esque blast of space-glam, fuelled by a very modern skittering paranoia, before the title track lets a little more oxygen back in the room with some psychedelic theatre akin to MGMT. “I’ll be in the backroom, tell me when it’s over,” sings Shultz, “I don’t know if I can play this part much longer”. Quite right, as the shift from previous records and the different gears they travel through on ‘Social Cues’ really show off Cage The Elephant’s chameleon prowl between what this band can really be. Perhaps never more so than on the pop-flecked art-rock of ‘Night Running’ where the band seem to blend as one into featured artist Beck.
‘Ready To Let Go’ and ‘Dance Dance’ both pick up the thread of CTE’s bluesy, garage rock roots, but with more of a graceful control as Shultz paints a profound landscape over his recent divorce: “The sun went down over Pompeii, on both sides the vow was broken”. That raucous energy carries too through spikey post-punk of album highlight ‘House Of Glass’, but the band’s undersung widescreen approach and maturity takes centre stage on the string-soaked swoon of ‘Loves The Only Way’ as Shultz preaches, “Look out for yourself, it’s all the rage”.
READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Matt Shultz, Cage The Elephant
‘The War Is Over’ and ‘What I’m Becoming’ both have that sombre and smokey lounge act feel of The Last Shadow Puppets or Mini Mansions, but just revisit the more refined moments on ‘Melophobia’ and ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ and you’ll realise that it’s a guise that Cage The Elephant have carried within them all along. “Seems like yesterday I was a child, just a ripple in the folds of time, I wish you well, I want to see you smile, it’s all right,” pines Shultz on the tender and intimate closer ‘Goodbye’ – another ode to the breakdown of his marriage. When all else fails, all you’re left with is yourself. This is the sound of Cage The Elephant exploring every corner of what they are.
SOURCE: https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/cage-the-elephant-social-cues-review
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