Cage The Elephant announce new album ‘Neon Pill’
Cage The Elephant have announced their long-awaited comeback album, Neon Pill, set to arrive on May 17th through Columbia Records. They’ve also shared the fresh single, ‘Out Loud’.
On their latest album, which was produced by John Hill at various locations across America, the six-member Kentucky-based band promise to venture into fresh musical territory while staying true to their innovative spirit and energetically charged live shows.
“To me, Neon Pill is the first record where we were consistently uninfluenced, and I mean that in a positive way,” said singer Matthew Shultz in a statement. “Everything is undoubtedly expressed through having settled into finding our own voice. We’ve always drawn inspiration from artists we love, and at times we’ve even emulated some of them to a certain degree.”
“With this album, having gone through so much, life had almost forced us into becoming more and more comfortable with ourselves,” he continued. “We weren’t reaching for much outside of the pure experience of self expression, and simultaneously not necessarily settling either. We just found a uniqueness in simply existing.”
The band claim the new single, ‘Out Loud’, to be the centre piece of the new album, as Shultz delivers an honest account of his recent past: “‘Out Loud’ is very connected to my father. My dad’s the reason we discovered music in the first place. When he died, ‘Out Loud’ just poured out of me. My efforts towards the song were deeply rooted in paying honour to him, and I knew it meant a lot to Brad too.”
He added: “That, also in connection with the difficulties that I was dealing with at that time. It was almost a subconscious apology of sorts before I was fully capable of grasping the gravity of it all. Subconsciously working through it while channeling all of the adversity my family faced growing up coming full circle into my adult life in this one song.”
Schultz also recently discussed his arrest in 2023, when he was discovered in possession of two firearms. As a result he entered guilty plea to three charges: attempted criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, and criminal possession of a weapon. Despite the severity of the charges, he managed to close on a plea deal that spared him from jail time.
In a post on Instagram, Shultz wrote: “It’s a miracle that I’m here today. I was arrested last year, and it undoubtedly saved my life. After my arrest, I went to the hospital for two months, followed by months of outpatient treatment. I can finally explain what happened.”
“Over the last three years, I was unknowingly fighting my way through an utter mental health crisis. In a short time, I had slipped into psychosis due to an iatrogenic response to a medication I was prescribed,” he added.
Listen to ‘Out Loud’ below.
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