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We’re thrilled to present to you the video for Caged Animals’ forthcoming single ‘Cindy+Me’, directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada. The single will be released on June 17, ahead of a new album later this year.

Shot in the analogue style of an 80s vintage Corporate film, the basic concept of the video is simple: (Caged) Animal Testing but with a whimsical and absurd twist.

We’re thrilled to announce that Caged Animals, aka Vincent Cacchione, is back with ‘Cindy+Me’, which premiered today on Stereogum. The single will be released on June 17, ahead of a new album later this year.

Caged Animals charmed critics on both sides of the Atlantic with the swoon-some pop of debut album ‘Eat Their Own’ – receiving accolades from the likes of The Guardian, Nylon and NME. Following last year’s ‘This Summer’ EP, the prodigiously talented Cacchione has offered the first taste of his second album in ‘Cindy + Me’. Written and produced by Vin in his home studio, it’s an immediate step forward: a modern day “Bonnie & Clyde,” with intricate electronics, a low-slung groove, and Caged Animals’ effortless way with a pop melody suggesting an affinity with the likes of Tom Tom Club.

In Vin’s words:

“’Cindy + Me’ is my attempt at capturing some sinister version of the adolescent dream. It’s an outlaw love song, based around a sample from synthesizer-pioneer Raymond Scott’s “Cindy Electronium.”

In the song, I’m a crazed teenager in love, running away from home with the girl and some twisted view of the future. We’ve got her father tied up in the house, a smoldering corpse, we’ve got the cash, “We’re living on top of the world,” and we’re going to get away with it.”

Further strengthening the romantic vision that seeds through all of Caged Animals’ musical imaginings ‘Cindy+Me’ is the first single from the forthcoming sophomore album.

We are excited to announce that Lucky Number will be representing at SXSW once again. In the thick of their epic joint twenty eight date North American tour, Darwin Deez and Caged Animals will be playing:-

Caged Animals today release the stunning 5 track “This Summer” EP. The title track of the EP, “This Summer I’ll Make It Up To You,” is a romantic vision of Summer imagined but never lived. Mr CagedAnimals, Vincent Cacchione, trades in hopeful couplets, promising to take the song’s subject to an idealized West Coast “where the sun is always shining,” a terminally East Coast perspective on the California Dream.  In its final verse, the narrator of Cacchione’s fraudulent summer begins to see through his own lie, realizing this ideal impossible and resigning himself and his lover to a trip “to the Jersey shore, if nothing better works out.”

Here is a very well written review of the EP from Vulture Hound, and you can purchase on iTunes here

To support the release, Caged Animals will be playing a  number of shows in New York this summer, dates below.

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Caged Animals will be releasing a wonderful 5 track EP on June 11, called This Summer EP, more details  here .  The title track of the EP ,”This Summer I’ll Make It Up To You,”, is a romantic vision of Summer imagined but never lived.  Mr CagedAnimals, Vincent Cacchione, trades in hopeful couplets, promising to take the song’s subject to an idealized West Coast “where the sun is always shining,” a terminally East Coast perspective on the California Dream.  In its final verse, the narrator of Cacchione’s fraudulent summer begins to see through his own lie, realizing this ideal impossible and resigning himself and his lover to a trip “to the Jersey shore, if nothing better works out.”

The video for the track, directed by Ace Norton, beautifully compliments the song’s message and aesthetics and is premiered today on Stereogum.