Cage The Elephant
Social Cues LP

Social Cues is the follow up to their Grammy-winning studio album Tell Me I'm Pretty. The majority of the material on Social Cues was written during the unravelling of Shultz's relationship. In order make sense of such a difficult experience, he explored the hidden recesses of his psyche, creating characters to tell different parts of his personal story. He explains, "it can be a vehicle to act out things that are hard to confront." He went on to say, "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."

Deeply inspired by punk music, brothers Matt and Brad Shultz began playing music in high-school with fellow students Jared Champion and Daniel Tichenor. Shortly after forming the band, they made the bold move to London to begin their career. Their self-titled debut album gained them international attention, catapulting them up the Billboard Alternative and Rock charts and achieving Platinum certification. Cage the Elephant has released three additional studio albums - 2011's Thank You, Happy Birthday, the Gold-certified Melophobia and the Grammy-winning Tell Me I'm Pretty. 

NEW / Released in 2019

Tracklist:

A1 Broken Boy

A2 Social Cues

A3 Black Madonna

A4 Night Running

A5 Skin And Bones

A6 Ready To Let Go

A7 House Of Glass

B1 Love's The Only Way

B2 The War Is Over

B3 Dance Dance

B4 What I'm Becoming

B5 Tokyo Smoke

B6 Goodbye