Blackest Thing on the Menu [LP] [VINYL]

Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes poster and digital download. 2019 , the fifth studio album by rock band Cage the Elephant. Social Cues follows Cage the Elephant's Grammy-winning Tell Me I'm Pretty from 2015, as well as their 2017 live album, Unpeeled. There are 13 tracks in total including a collaboration with Beck titled, "Night Running". Cage the Elephant formed in 2006 and relocated to London, England, in 2008 before their first album was released. The band's first album was released in 2008 to much success, spawning several successful radio singles and gained the band a large following in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Album Tracks 1. Broken Boy - 2 43 2. Social Cues - 3 39 3. Black Madonna - 3 47 4. Night Running - 3 28 5. Skin and Bones - 3 16 6. Ready to Let Go - 3 08 7. House of Glass - 2 35 1. Love's the Only Way - 4 01 2. The War Is Over - 3 16 3. Dance Dance - 3 10 4. What I'm Becoming - 3 50 5. Tokyo Smoke - 3 26 6. Goodbye - 4 16

Entirely written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by the duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matt Lewin, Mercurial World proposes an abstract theory of time and explores the staggering "what ifs" that make up the human experience. Approaching reality as a construct allows Magdalena Bay to enact their own, one that is committed to nothing but expanding the possible. Even the album's sequencing hints at the eternal the first track is titled "The End," the last is "The Beginning," forming a perfect loop when you listen to it straight through. "Matt, Matt, wake up!" Tenenbaum whispers on the introductory track. "I was thinking about how there's no true end to anything/ Everything comes from and goes to the same place Nowhere." "Mercurial World has a lot of outsized themes on it, like destiny, death, and doing the impossible," Tenenbaum explains. "It's not exactly a concept album, but we love prog-rock, so we love a concept." Album Tracks 1. The End 2. Mercurial World 3. Dawning of the Season 4. Secrets (Your Fire) 5. You Lose! 6. Something for 2 7. Chaeri 8. Halfway 9. Hysterical Us 10. Prophecy 11. Follow the Leader 12. Domino 13. Dreamcatching 14. The Beginning