Thank You Happy Birthday
There’s little sign of [a]Cage The Elephant[/a]’s former angst here, replaced instead by three types of song.
Mainstream success is a curious thing. Those of us struggling to pay this month's rent would gladly welcome fame and fortune, but for a group trying to remain true to its aesthetic, it can spark an existential crisis. Cage the Elephant's 2009 self-titled debut yielded three hit singles (including "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked," which turned up in more than a handful of commercials, movies and TV shows). So when frontman Matt Shultz writes "On this record I realized I was part of the hypocrisy. And I was like, 'Wow, I'm a real piece of shit'" in the press release that accom...
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