For someone coming into Melophobia who loved the first two albums, it’s possibly more confusing than anything. It features musical concepts that were simply not present on the prior albums. This new sound is much more experimental than their old works. “Forever” and later track “Hypocrite” sound the same as each other and end with some strange inclusions of pianos and trumpets that had no resemblance to anything else in the songs.
Verses and choruses mash up, bridges feel forced, and there is definitely some disjoint between what the band tried to go for and what the engineer ended up mixing. “Forever”, which features guest singer Alison Mosshart, also begins the trend of unorthodox structures to these songs. It sounded like Lincoln Parish, the lead guitarist, was dragging his nails over his strings during some of the songs, especially “It’s Just Forever”. I took notes while listening to the album, and a consistent theme was definitely the overly metallic sound coming from every album. Every song from Telescope to Halo employs the same musical tactic: Matt Schultz screeches, it gets heavily edited, and this gets played over a guitar and drum track that sounds horribly out of place. I must say that I do not think this direction was the right idea for Cage the Elephant to go in. There was a solid attempt to let everyone know that the band was going a different direction. I can sort of understand where they wanted to go with this album. After that, the album began to really lose me.
The music of Melophobia sounds pretty similar from song to song Spiderhead opens up the album yelling about spiders in front man Matt Schultz’s mind, and proceeds to segue into the ever popular single Come a Little Closer. Now, we see black leather and bright lights which evolve into a stranger, more modern sound as well. Cage the Elephant’s 2013 album Melophobia is their latest change of pace going from Cage the Elephant to Thank You Happy Birthday we saw longer hair and a more traditional look of rock and roll. I hardly know anyone who didn’t go crazy over “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” and proceed to download the whole album (most of the times illegally) and blast it on the bus or studying at home. When I think about bands that got me into music written and produced after 2000, Cage the Elephant immediately comes to mind.
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