Social cues

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Social cues
Studio album by Cage the Elephant

Publication
(s)

19th April 2019

Label (s) RCA

Genre (s)

Alternative rock , indie rock , blues rock

Title (number)

13

running time

44:35

occupation
  • Matt Shultz: vocals, guitar
  • Brad Shultz: guitar, keyboards
  • Daniel Tichenor: Bass
  • Jared Champion: drums
  • Nick Bockrath: lead guitar, pedal steel, lap steel, keyboards, celeste, cello
  • Matthan Minster: piano, keyboards, rhythm guitar, vibraphone, backing vocals

production

John Hill

Studio (s)

Battle Tapes Recording, Blackbird Studio and Sound Emporium in Nashville, Tennessee, Village Recording Studio in Los Angeles, California

chronology
Tell Me I'm Pretty Social cues -

Social Cues is the 5th studio album by the American rock band Cage the Elephant . It was released on April 19, 2019 after it was announced on January 31 of the same year. The recordings took place in 2018 in Nashville , Tennessee and Los Angeles, California.

Track list

All titles were written by Brad Shultz, Daniel Tichenor, Jared Champion, Matt Shultz, Matthan Minster & Nick Bockrath. Producer John Hill has also been involved in Broken Boy , Social Cues and Dance Dance . Beck Hansen and Natalie Belle Bergmann also took part in the Night Running title .

  1. Broken Boy - 2:43
  2. Social Cues - 3:39
  3. Black Madonna - 3:47
  4. Night Running (with Beck) - 3:28
  5. Skin and Bones - 3:16
  6. Ready to Let Go - 3:08
  7. House of Glass - 2:35
  8. Love's the Only Way - 4:01
  9. The War Is Over - 3:16
  10. Dance Dance - 3:10
  11. What I'm Becoming - 3:50
  12. Tokyo Smoke - 3:26
  13. Goodbye - 4:16

reception

The album was generally positively received by the critics. At Metacritic, for example, it has a Metascore of 75 and a user score of 8.5.

Laut.de judged “The band relies on old strengths, but still opens up to new elements. Your sound is not watered down, but expanded. "

The English-speaking Rolling Stone gave it 4 out of 5 stars. "The eclectic Kentucky band channels its mid-career angst on a great album".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Social cues at Metacritic. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  2. Inspired by Pompeii and true crime documentaries. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  3. ^ Social Cues in the English-language Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .