London – Cage the Elephant, who release their new album Tell Me I’m Pretty through Columbia Records on 18th December, have confirmed a string of European shows in February. The gigs will be the bands’ first since playing with Foals at Alexandra Palace in Feb 2014. The Times raved about those shows, reporting, “charismatic singer Matt Shultz ended stripped to the waist, upside down in the crowd, feet flailing above the heads around him”. Cage The Elephant recently performed an equally exhilarating set during a secret show at CMJ with Consequence of Sound describing the show as “absolutely wild” and said “Matt Shultz has developed a reputation as a fearless performer, and his daredevil antics were on full display.”
Tell Me I’m Pretty was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys & The Arcs, mixed by Tom Elmhirst (Amy Winehouse, Adele, Florence + the Machine) and recorded at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, TN, near the group’s hometown of Bowling Green, KY.
Cage The Elephant Tour Dates:
13 February - Shepherd’s Bush Empire - London, UK
14 February - Rescue Rooms – Nottingham, UK
15 February - Riverside – Newcastle, UK
16 February - QMU – Glasgow, UK
18 February - Academy 2 – Liverpool, UK
19 February - Unity Works – Wakefield, UK
20 February - Academy 2 – Manchester, UK
23 February - Underground – Cologne, Germany
24 February - Melkweg Old Hall - Amsterdam, Netherlands
25 February - PBHFCLUB - Berlin, Germany
26 February - Vega Small Hall - Copenhagen, Denmark
With Tell Me I’m Pretty Cage the Elephant are pushing the advances they made with their last record, 2013’s Melophobia, which was nominated for a Grammy for ‘Best Alternative Album’ while also drawing from the sounds that initially inspired them to start making music. “With this record, we wanted to be more transparent,” says lead singer Matt Shultz. “We wanted to capture the sentiment of each song, and whatever emotional response it provoked, to be really honest to that.” The results are the band’s most forceful and focused songs yet. They recorded most of the songs on the first take, capturing the band’s raw and frenetic onstage energy.
Melophobia took the band to new heights, delivering two Number One singles on the Alternative charts (‘Come a Little Closer’ and ‘Cigarette Daydreams’), with Rolling Stone heralding “Kentucky’s Cage the Elephant warp Sixties garage rock, Seventies punk and Eighties alt-rock into excellently weird new shapes”. Their 2011 album Thank You Happy Birthday debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and was praised as “one of the best rock albums of the year”. Long celebrated as one of the most explosive live bands in the world, Cage the Elephant has toured extensively, selling out several headlining runs and performing alongside the likes of The Black Keys, Foo Fighters, Muse and Queens of the Stone Age.
