New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Cage The Elephant will release their new album 'Melophobia' through Virgin/EMI on 10th February. Recorded in Nashville and produced by Jay Joyce, who also produced their two previous albums, 'Melophobia' is the follow up to 2011's acclaimed album 'Thank You, Happy Birthday'. The band, who will be special guests on Foals' sold-out UK tour in February, have also confirmed a headline show at London's Electric Ballroom on 17th February . Tickets for this show will go on sale on Friday 8th November at 9am.
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Cage The Elephant's previous UK appearance was a sold-out show at The Forum, London in 2011.
February
Tues 4th Olympia Dublin*
Weds 5th Olympia Dublin*
Fri 7th O2 Apollo Manchester*
Sat 8th O2 Apollo Manchester*
Sun 9th O2 Academy Glasgow*
Tues 11th O2 Academy Birmingham*
Weds 12th O2 Academy Newcastle*
Fri 14th
Alexandra Palace London*
Sat 15th
Alexandra Palace London*
Mon 17th Electric Ballroom London**
* with Foals
** headline show
"This album has tested us as individuals and as a collective. We're five people fighting for our own ideologies of good music - we clash stylistically and sometimes even personally," said drummer Jared Champion.
The album, a varied collection of unabashedly vivid and notably thoughtful rock songs, was written and recorded over the course of a year, with various recording sessions taking place at St. Charles Studio in Nashville over the winter and spring with longtime producer Jay Joyce. The approach was highly experimental and based around the idea that that you don't write a song, you find it. Throughout the process the band stopped listening to other musical recordings almost entirely and Matt Shultz drew songwriting inspiration from listening to those around him interact.
"As individuals we all had fairly vague visions for how we wanted the record to turn out," lead singer Matt Shultz says. "They were pretty polar. It really became a challenge to combine all these polar opposites together in a cohesive way. We first started writing material that was very intimate and had a very kind of close and hushed sound to it, but our hearts missed that energy and swagger and playfulness we love so much. Once that came to light, the record really started taking shape on its own. It was the uniting of several different ideas that were really different from each other."
Cage The Elephant's previous album 'Thank You, Happy Birthday' debuted at No. 2 in the US Billboard Top 200 and the band have sold over 550,000 copies of their first two albums to date.
'Melophobia' Track Listing:
1. SPIDERHEAD
2. COME A LITTLE CLOSER
3. TELESCOPE
4. IT'S JUST FOREVER (featuring Alison Mosshart)
5. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
6. HALO
7. BLACK WIDOW
8. HYPOCRITE
9. TEETH
10. CIGARETTE DAYDREAMS
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