Cage The Elephant releases new single, 'Beaches In Tennessee', marking the multi-GRAMMY Award-winning band’s first new music in two years and the beginning of their next chapter with Big Loud Rock.
The band made the song with producers Justin Raisen and SADPONY (Jeremiah Raisen), whose collective credits include Charli xcx, SZA, Kim Gordon, Lil Yachty, Yves Tumor, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The collaboration brought together two pairs of brothers, with Cage The Elephant’s Matt and Brad Shultz working alongside Justin and Jeremiah Raisen from the earliest stages of the song’s creation. Rather than overbuild the track, the band leaned into the energy in the room and kept the recording direct.
“I liked several different albums Justin had worked on, including Kim Gordon and Yves Tumor,” says Brad Shultz. “For producers, he was at the top of my list. I flew out to L.A. and hung out with him in the studio one night. The energy was crazy. It was like two wool socks in a dryer. He brought in Jeremiah. There’s a common thread between them, but they make two different types of art. They have their own unique views and ways of doing things, so it’s been pretty cool to just jump between those two worlds. It’s made a pretty unique mix in what we’re doing. I knew they were the guys.”
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Built around Brad’s guitar part, ‘Beaches In Tennessee’ keeps the production lean and immediate. The track moves with a shuffling rhythm, loose bassline, and a refrain that turns the song’s central plea into a hook. “Somebody take me home. I’m not the enemy. I’m going back to those beaches in Tennessee.”
‘Beaches In Tennessee’ arrives after a defining period for Cage The Elephant, who returned from their run as special guests on Oasis Live ’25 and went straight back into the studio. More than twenty years into their career, the band are still finding new urgency in the creative process and new ways to push the project forward.
“The Oasis tour really reignited our fire to dream and continue to dream,” says Matt Shultz. “I think we realized there’s still room to evolve and push ourselves, especially in the live realm. That tour added to our overall passion and desire to see this thing through. When it was over, we decided not to take a break. We pretty much went straight into the studio to start making music.”
Since forming in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 2006, Cage The Elephant have built one of this generation’s premier rock catalogs, buoyed by uncompromising creativity and wildly cathartic performances. To date, they have earned dozens of Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum certifications, tallied six billion streams and counting, and notched thirteen #1 records on Alternative Radio and seven #1 records on Triple A Radio. They were nominated for their first GRAMMY Award with Melophobia [2013] and later won Best Rock Album for back-to-back releases Tell Me I’m Pretty [2015] and Social Cues [2019], followed by another nomination in the category for Neon Pill [2024].
