“Never an easy band to pin down, Cage The Elephant have danced between grunge, blues and arena rock before the more mature depth and diversity of last album ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ saw them take home a Grammy. In the wake of a divorce and in more exploratory mood than ever, can CTE’s Matt Shultz finally lead the band to what they really are? Opener ‘Broken Boy’ blows the album wide open with a Bowie-”
“Looking a 13 track gift horse in the mouth feels like a constitutionally dickish crime, particularly when all 13 tracks happen to be pretty goshdarn good. That’s the case with Social Cues, the new Cage the Elephant’s record, not quite a breakup record, but rather a reconciliation record where the complicated emotions of separation announce themselves in the song titles—“Broken Boy,” “Ready to Let ”
“The songwriting on Social Cues is far too tame to live up to the album's dark backstory.”
“Cage the Elephant’s Social Cues is a mish-mash of ideas and missed opportunities”
