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Album Review: Cage The Elephant - Melophobia

Ash Goldberg

Melophobia means a fear of music. Aptly titled, because any band vying for the title of rock album of the year should fear the music on this record.

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Melophobia means a fear of music. Aptly titled, because any band vying for the title of rock album of the year should fear the music on this record. Spiderhead opens the LP with some superb upbeat grunge, Telescope delivers a melodic tale of introspection and It's Just Forever gives us some dirty cabaret-style vocals, care of guest Alison Mosshart. Frontman Matt Shultz reportedly suffered tirelessly over Melophobia in an effort to search for the 'holes in the music', like Bob Dylan used to. Whether he found them or not can't be said, but whatever he did find, it's scary good.