Tuesday, October 8

“I consider the guitar as a punctuation to the vocal. It’s about, ‘How can I be an exclamation point?'” Cage The Elephant guitar player Nick Bokrath describes his special guitar grammar– and the innocence of pedal steel

The current album from Cage The Elephant was a long period of time coming. As lead guitar player Nick Bockrath states, “We began taping it 3 years back!” Neon Pillthe band’s very first brand-new record considering that 2019’s Social Cuesdeserved awaiting.

Led by the Shultz bros, vocalist Matt and rhythm guitar player Brad, Cage The Elephant have actually committed some seriously extreme indie-meets-garage-meets-psych-rock for many years. An extensive noise and boundary-pushing state of mind has actually appeared from their self-titled launching from 2008, including the slinky blues-rocker Ain’t No Rest For The Wickedand continued throughout albums such as 2013’s Melophobiawith its dreamy acoustic hit Cigarette Daydreamsand 2015’s Inform Me I’m Prettyproduced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach.

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Andrew Daly is an iced-coffee-addicted, oddball Telecaster-playing, alfredo pasta-loving reporter from Long Island, NY, who, in addition to being a contributing author for Guitar World, scribes for Rock Candy, Bass Player, Total Guitar, and Classic Rock History. Andrew has actually talked to favorites like Ace Frehley, Johnny Marr, Vito Bratta, Bruce Kulick, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Rich Robinson, and Paul Stanley, while his all-time favorite (rhythm gamer), Keith Richards, continues to avoid him.

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