Caged Animals – A New Signing
23.05.11
At a time when wan wallpaper pap, not pop, is relentlessly sold as a never-ending nirvana of supposedly exciting and alternative culture it’s refreshing to find a pop persona whose ideas are truly inspired by the detail of counter-culture Americana. Caged Animals is a wired world, but, simultaneously, an innocent version of darker concepts, mixing lyric and melody to create the sweetest sensation. It’s a world inhabited by Raymond Carver vignettes and exhibitions of raw Neil Rough portraiture, or Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’ (1959), and it could be sound tracked by ‘The Elephant 6’ collective playing Dion covers, Sun Ra’s future-jazz moogs and grooves, no wave’s awkward ‘DNA’, or the Captain Beefheart, that we are recently so bereft of, at his most playful. Philosophical accompaniment references Lao Tzu, THC, New Jersey’s radio heroes, WFMU, and beyond; cryptic and apocalyptic in almost equal measure, the vision is certainly as important as the lyrical content.
We’re absolutely delighted to welcome Caged Animals to the Lucky Number family. An incredible album, Eat Their Own, is to be released in September but first here’s “Girls on Medication”.
“Girls On Medication” will be available w-wide on July 4th, 2011, on beautiful white vinyl (limited to just 500 copies). Cover artwork below and further details here. Pre-order 7″ Vinyl here.
