Cage the Elephant's 'Neon Pill' Review
’s Matt Shultz sings on the title track from the Kentucky band’s sixth album. The sound is familiar, a smart, subdued garage-rock swagger that’s a prime example of their ability to punch up a throwback style. But the lyrics are far from burnout boilerplate. Several years ago, Shultz experienced a psychotic response to prescribed medication, and in 2023 he was charged with criminal possession of a firearm.
The process of what another song here calls “shadowboxing shame and self-inflected mind-games” has given Cage the Elephant’s music a needed urgency. Their last album, 2019’s, circled around theme of rock stat malaise, a less-than-universal concept the band salvaged with a set of songs that cleverly mixed Sixties traditionalism and Eighties revisionism. Obviously, the mental strain Shultz sang about has been put into sharper contrast by his recent troubles.
What evolves amidst all the album’s many genre modifications is the sound of a band using sounds they love to pull themselves through real-life drama. “Silent Pictures” is s breakneck image of a life on the edge , set to tense drums and a searing guitar lead that stretches to the horizon even as the lyrics hint at oblivion. They end the album with “Over Your Shoulder,” in which the band processes another deeply personal topic, the passing of Matt and Brad’s father.
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