Most of my song are based on actual people in my life, people who are dear to me and have made an impact on my life. Who is the girl in the drawing for вЂњCigarette DaydreamвЂќ? Sometimes when IвЂ™m writing lyrics, IвЂ™ll draw a little picture as a visual reference. I think itвЂ™s more about the people that fill the venue and less about the venue.Д¬an we talk about these drawings you did? What got you into drawing them? We didnвЂ™t headline it so it wasnвЂ™t really our show, but it was still an honor to play. It feels pretty cool to play Bridgestone. What does it feel like to go from The Basement to the Bridgestone Arena, where you opened for Muse last month? Speaking of Nashville, youвЂ™ve been playing there since very early on in the band. And then I spent a little bit of time in France. I spent a lot of time with friends that are in bands in the area too. Most of the year I was between Kentucky and Nashville, though I also spent a lot of time in a cabin in Portland, Tenn., working on music with the band.

Where were you this winter when you were writing Melophobia? When I write songs I almost try to take a snapshot of where I was at the time. Recently with my lyrics IвЂ™ve wanted it to be comparable to if your parent or grandparent was on their deathbed and you were trying to say all the things you wish youвЂ™d said before. Because thereвЂ™s things we are able to say through creative works that weвЂ™re not able to say face to face sometimes. I think being honest in general is important, but especially in songwriting. On this record, for us, it wasnвЂ™t necessarily an actual fear of music, but a fear of making music to project premeditated images of self rather than being an honest communicator.Дo you think being honest is important to songwriting? Melophobia is by definition fear of music. We sat down with lead singer Matt Shultz to discuss lyrical experiments, art, and honesty in songwriting. Recorded in Nashville with longtime producer Jay Joyce, Melophobia marks a new direction for the band, both musically and lyrically. Retrieved November 12, 2013.Kentucky rockers Cage the Elephant release their third album, Melophobia, tomorrow.

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Scenes of the band performing the song is interspersed throughout.

Schultz then rides a flaming lion and makes his way to a different planet made of skulls, traveling into its core and managing to escape death by destroying it. A mix of animation and live-action footage, it depicts the members of Cage the Elephant being transported to an alien planet and trying to escape from several monstrous beings, and in Schultz's case, having to navigate out of the stomach of a giant whale and evade being devoured by a group of birds. The music video for 'Come a Little Closer' was directed by Matthew Shultz and released on November 12, 2013. Finding the makeshift housing comparable to an anthill, he soon found himself wondering what each soul inside each borough felt, whether it be heartache, love, loss or joy. Cage the Elephant lead singer Matthew Shultz wrote 'Come a Little Closer', taking inspiration from an occasion in which he woke up in a SГЈo Paulo hotel in the early morning and opened his window to watch the sunrise over the favelas.

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