Riffed

Cage the Elephants latest single, 'Cigarette Daydreams', is our Single Of The Week for this week. Taken from their latest album, 'Melophobia', the track has been recieving a lot of love of late, hence the reason why the Kentuckians decided to release it as a single. 

Track 10 of 10 on 'Melophobia', 'Cigarette Daydreams' is perfectly placed. Following the engineered racket of 'Teeth' on track 9 as well as the prior exuberancy exerted by Matt Schultz and the rest of Cage the Elephant on their third studio album, a slow and tranquil yet upbeat and powerful 3 minutes and 28 seconds of pure brilliance. Whilst listening you feel as though lead singer Matt is re-telling of his teenage years as he screams passionately about all of his pain yet to a jolly and upbeat tune, portraying the happy and sad times he had during his adolesence. The soothing sound of a six string acoustic is met with the upbeat bang of drums as 'Cigarette Daydreams' brilliance ever increases in magnitude, following this the track swiftly drops into a 1 string, close mic, overtoned chorus that soon powerfully and passionately re-develops before abruptly drawing to a close. 

'Cigarrete Daydreams' is simply a wonderfully brilliant track from Cage the Elephant. 

RIFFED's Rating: 9/10 

Listen to 'Cigarette Daydreams' and watch the official video via Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opeETnB8m8w ;

Written by Charlie Ireland. 

RIFFED x