Cage The Elephant – Unpeeled (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:20:16 minutes | 1000 MB | Genre: Alternative
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Unpeeled is the second live release from alt-rock act Cage the Elephant. Following their first live release, 2012’s Live from the Vic in Chicago, the recording chronicles a number of live unplugged shows in cities such as Washington, D.C., Knoxville, Nashville, and Los Angeles in support of their 2015 album, Tell Me I’m Pretty. The record features 18 songs from the band’s back catalog in stripped-down versions, some involving choir and string quartet accompaniment. ~ Rob Wacey
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Cage The Elephant – Tell Me I’m Pretty (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:17 minutes | 451 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
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Tell Me I’m Pretty is the indie/alternative/rock group’s 2015 release. Band leader Matt Schultz is quoted as describing the album: “With this record, we wanted to be more transparent. We wanted to capture the sentiment of each song, and whatever emotional response it provoked, to be really honest to that”.
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Cage The Elephant – Social Cues (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:34 minutes | 572 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
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On Social Cues, Matt Shultz tries to make sense of a tumultuous time in his life. The Cage the Elephant frontman not only went through a divorce but also lost two of his best friends to suicide during the recording of the band’s fifth full-length album. But rather than dwell on his tragic circumstances, Shultz focused on the positives that tend to get dismissed during periods of personal turmoil. “I think there’s the temptation, when you’re going through a tough time, to get stuck in the melodrama of things and be like, ‘Oh, I’m going to write a sad song and it’s just going to explain exactly where I’m at,’” Shultz said in an interview with Beats 1. “You miss out on other notes and colours of life that are so important.”
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