Cage The Elephant - Cry Baby

1.    Who are these trippers?

Cage The Elephant are one of the most popular and influential indie rock bands at the minute. Making exciting and eclectic genre hopping anthems since 2006 and hailing from Bowling Green, Kentucky, they have four long players on their roll of majestic honor. Cry Baby is the second single whipped off Tell Me I'm Pretty (Dec'15).


2. What have Cage The Elephant trotted out for your deliction?

Cry Baby is like seventies classic rock. A psych tinged, roiling, and yet ultimately relaxed, indie rocker.


3. Who do Cage The Elephant approximate?

Cry Baby is reminiscent of a Tame Impala tune with a sense of purpose. Black Keys are an obvious reference and so are Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Family Rain.


4. What pearls of wisdom have the fourth estate dropped about Cry Baby?

“Tambourine-flecked rollicking fuzz” – NME.

“Brooding chord progression and slightly melancholic vocal” – Ultimate Guitar.

“Striking indie punk style” – Red Brick.

5. Which bands have lent a hand in shaping the epic fashion of Cage The Elephant?

The main Cage The Elephant influences are The Ramones, The Stooges, Violent Femmes, Chuck Berry and The Rolling Stones.


6. Why should I bring Cry Baby out to trot?

Cry Baby is a cranky serve at some lady and all the better for it. Stewing in niggle Cry Baby isn't a flight of fancy, it is classic, taint punchingly honest, rock'n'roll. Right here, right now, Cry Baby is a glorious and victorious battle won in Cage The Elephant's campaign to attain rock'n'roll immortality.


7. Do Cage The Elephant have any more bangers?

Jesse James is the hidden nugget and then more standard issue fare Mess Around, the first single from Tell Me I'm Pretty, won't leave the people hanging. Ain't No Rest For The Wicked is an indie anthem from an extensive roll of rock hard genius.


8. Any more words fool?

The cut and paste bandits had a circle jerk over the fact that Dan Auerbach, singer and guitarist for The Black Keys, produced and played on the new album Tell Me I'm Pretty.

Dave Grohl drummed on tour for Cage The Elephant in 2011 when their drummer had an illness.

“You say that I’m insane,

I say you are probably right”

 

 

 

 

 

The Great Awake are a melodic punk rock band from South Sydney, Australia. The men have been on the job since 2012, influenced by Millencolin, The Flat Liners, No Use For A Name and Blink-182. Departure Lounge (Sept'15) is the lead single from The Great Awake's debut album Reasons For Leaving (Feb'16). AAA Back Stage said Departure Lounge has “a full throttle, standout chorus full of great singalong potential,” and another Ocker thought it’s “a good ‘n honest slug of Australian punk rock.”

“We sang along to the drunken songs,

And the strangers that shared the streets”