Cage The Elephant announce album ‘Neon Pill’ with emotive new single ‘Out Loud’

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Cage The Elephant have announced details of a new album called ‘Neon Pill’. Check out the latest single ‘Out Loud’ below.Announced today (February 29), the LP marks their first full-length album in five years – following on from 2019’s Grammy-winning ‘Social Cues’– and is set for release on May 17.

Pre-order it here.For their sixth album, the Kentucky six-piece look to forge new musical ground, while still retaining their signature cathartic sound throughout.

As well as announcing the project, Cage The Elephant have also shared the latest taster of the album in the form of the new single ‘Out Loud’.The second to be taken from the album following the title track, ‘Out Loud’ is described as the “emotional centrepiece” of the album, and sees the band take a stripped-back, emotional approach.Centred around a stark piano, frontman Matthew Shultz sings “Man I really messed up now/ Too afraid to say it out loud/ I can barely breath, who’m I trying to be/ I’m still trying to figure it out”.“‘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 said of the inspiration for the song.“That, also in connection with the difficulties that I was dealing with at that time.