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Cage The Elephant Release Song

1/11/2015

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​Cage the Elephant is resurrected and ready for action. The group broke up with 
longtime producer Jay Joyce and now the Black Keys ‘Dan Auerbach’ gets the chance 
to produce their music.
​You can feel the influnce from Dan in ‘Mess Around’, part of the band’s upcoming 
album, ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’.
Frontman Matt Shultz told Consequence of Sound, “Brad [Shultz] was listening to a 
lot of Jay Reatard at the time and was inspired by the riffs that Jay was so incredible 
at writing. We had already recorded a majority of the record and took small breaks 
from the studio with Dan Auerbach and went and demoed some new tracks. ‘Mess 
Around’ almost didn’t make the record — Brad was unconvinced that it fit. And I 
overheard him playing the riff and got really excited, and then convinced Brad to 
pursue it as a song.”
He adds, “A couple years ago I saw OutKast doing their festival circuit. Andre 3000’s 
delivery and his sense of melody was inspiring to me. I was wondering if there was a 
way to create an alternative song with a similar kind of energy, marrying that with a 
Byrds or a Creedence Clearwater Revival stylistic color. We recorded it in one day 
and brought it into the studio. Dan got very excited about it — he actually did the 
solo that’s on that track. It just happened really fast.”
Mess Around is just one of the songs that is part of their new album, that comes out 
on December 18th. You can pre-order ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ on Amazon and iTunes.
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