Caged Animals – Eat Their Own

Releasedate: 14-11; Label: Cooperative Music
By: Martine Goffard

Caged Animals is a U.S. band from Brooklyn. They have released their first album called “Caged Animals” in 2010. They describe their music as pop-psychedelic-tropical. An original description and I can only agree to it.

Their new album “Eat Their Own” has a particular sound that is at the same time innovative and retro. The songs are very short, never longer than 3:30 min and extremely slow. It starts with a floating music. You wake up by the sunbeams of the morning, on a lazy day. As the heat grows, you jump in your car for a ride with a few riffs of guitar in your ears. It’s summer, you’re on holiday and you remember your past loves. The music makes you lighthearted. Then, along the album, the psychedelic atmosphere varies between a torrid afternoon and the buzzing lights of the night.
The music is never the same. It may be parasited and dim like on Hazy Girls, electro like flashing light bulbs on Pile Of $$$ or heavy like a steamroller on The NJ Turnpike. The Song Teflon Heart comes out of the lot, not only because it manages to make the word “teflon” sounds poetic. Now, the gem on the album is for me “Instant Heartbreaker”. The voice is so unreal and sensual and it ends the album with the same lightness as we began.
“Eat Their Own” is an album that you listen to when you read, paint or lay in the sun. Probably not when you drive as you will have a tendency to doze after the first songs. Whatever you do, just close your eyes and enjoy the trip.

Line up :
vincent cacchione – voice
magali francoise – keys
talya rose cacchione – bass
patrick curry – drums

Links:
Caged Animals Facebook