Cage The Elephant Share New Song ‘Good Time’
Cage the Elephant have unveiled “Good Time,” the second single from their upcoming album Neon Pill.
Singer Matt Shultz describes “Good Time” as “one of those rare tracks that captivated me instantaneously. The instrumentation hit so hard, with an energy that was so commanding, that it was almost as if I couldn’t have kept myself from writing something to it if I had wanted to.”
He notes how it’s different for the band, yet feels strangely familiar to their past work. “It felt like visually the music was some strange monstrous alien creature thunderously marching and stumbling down a crowded street in the middle of a parade on a sweltering hot summer day or something weird like that.
He continues: “I wanted the vocals to dance around and play with that energy. To be potent and at the same time intuitive or a seemingly random mumbling. As though they were a frantically ranted broken confessional piece. To illustrate as best as possible, psychosis and the entanglement of the inner dialog that constantly circulates when in that state. At the same time, in a playful way, sarcastically proclaiming that it was all just a good time or perhaps more so allowing the sarcastic statement to remain open as more of a question itself. A party song which beneath the surface, anthemic as it may be, might not be a party song at all.”
Listen to the song below.
Cage the Elephant’s new album Neon Pill is out on May 17th via RCA Records. Pre-order it here. In support of the record, the band will hit the road next month. See all their dates here.
