{"id":794619,"date":"2019-04-08T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T21:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=819403"},"modified":"2019-04-08T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T21:33:15","slug":"hear-cage-the-elephant-bid-agonizing-farewell-on-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-cage-the-elephant-bid-agonizing-farewell-on-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Cage the Elephant Bid Agonizing Farewell on New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cage-the-Elephant-DSC05596-Neil-Krug.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cage-the-elephant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cage-the-elephant\" data-tag=\"cage-the-elephant\">Cage the Elephant<\/a> capture the end of a long relationship on their new song, \u201cGoodbye,\u201d set to appear on their forthcoming album, <em>Social Cues<\/em>, out April 19th. \u201cGoodbye\u201d is a plaintive ballad where the spaces between distant piano notes are filled with a steady swell of strings. There\u2019s a hard ache in singer Matt Shultz\u2019s soft vocals as he sings, \u201cMy pretty bird, my favorite lullaby\/How\u2019d I become the thorn in your side\/All your laughter turned into a cry\/It\u2019s all right, goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoodbye\u201d follows previously released&nbsp;<em>Social Cues&nbsp;<\/em>cuts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cage-the-elephant-house-of-glass-804679\/\">\u201cHouse of Glass,\u201d<\/a> \u201cReady to Let Go\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cage-the-elephant-beck-night-running-814102\/\">\u201cNight Running,\u201d<\/a> which features Beck. Shultz wrote \u201cGoodbye\u201d for his wife as their seven-year relationship was ending, and in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cage-elephant-new-album-social-cues-786774\/\">interview with <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, Cage the Elephant recalled how Shultz was only able to muster one take of the vocals, which he recorded while lying down on the studio floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere was a fair amount of self-medication\u2009and intense isolation,\u201d Shultz said of the erratic sessions that produced <em>Social Cues<\/em>. Speaking about how his divorce influenced the album, he added, \u201cI saw a depth of potential evil that I had never experienced first hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Social Cues<\/em> follows Cage the Elephant\u2019s 2015 album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/tell-me-im-pretty-202790\/\"><em>Tell Me I\u2019m Pretty<\/em><\/a>. The band will embark on a co-headlining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagetheelephant.com\/tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tour<\/a> with Beck this summer, starting July 11th in Ridgefield, Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cage-the-elephant-new-social-cues-song-goodbye-819403\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cage the Elephant capture the end of a long relationship on their new song, \u201cGoodbye,\u201d set to appear on their forthcoming album, Social Cues, out April 19th. \u201cGoodbye\u201d is a plaintive ballad where the spaces between distant piano notes are filled with a steady swell of strings. There\u2019s a hard ache in singer Matt Shultz\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 21:20:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}