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Hey it's Carlin we're at WayHome today with Matt and Brad from Cage the Elephant
So you guys have this new album that just came out today
live and unpeeled
yes
tell us about this project
we were invited to do an event that Neil Young puts on
called the Bridge School benefit and one of stipulations is that
that all the instruments have to be acoustic whether it's just you know,
acoustic piano or guitar or whatever no electronic instruments and our lead
guitarist Nick did some string arrangements so we brought in a string
quartet for it and it went over really well
Tell Me I'm Pretty was our last record
official record, studio record with RCA so they'd called an option on a
Greatest Hits but you know we felt like a Greatest Hits was more like an end of
a career move and for us we feel like we're just getting started
and we're working on new material, real excited about it so we came with the
idea since that went so well to expand bringing more songs and take it
on the road and then turn that into a record and RCA was so gracious to allow
us to do that which was really awesome of them so that's how the record came about
Was it hard did you find it challenging?
um no, but it was
really great because a lot of our songs we write acoustically and so it was nice
to go back to kind of the place where they originated and then also we've
always been big fans of artists that use strings and choirs and stuff like that
The Beatles, David Bowie
just never had the opportunity to work with
a real string section and so that was really great too
well what I've heard from it sounds amazing
and your last album won the Grammy for Rock Album of the Year
when you started writing music was that ever a goal or
did that seem like something unattainable
I don't know if it was
necessarily a goal, I mean it's a huge honor to have I think but for us we
always set out just to be honest songwriters and
make a better record every record that we make
yeah
so I don't know
it's good to have but it's not something that's like, in the forefront of our minds