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Here’s the official video for Caged Animals “Girls On Medication” – Gummy Bears!!! Directed by Drew Norton of Reston Films.

“Girls On Medication” is now available w-wide on beautiful white vinyl (limited to just 500 copies) and digital download. Early praise for Caged Animals:

“A louche, sordid little number. It is an unnervingly frank confession of lust for an over-opiated young lady – and it also has one of the best choruses we have posted here in a long time…” The Line of Best Fit

“So good, so damn good.” I Guess I’m Floating

“Vin Cacchione’s songs sound thick, like a muggy summer afternoon haze… heavy doses of shoegaze and dreamwave while keeping its active pop ingredients.” Yvynyl

“On the surface, ‘Girls On Medication’ seems like a serenade to women with prescriptions, a fuzzy peon that singles out the sedated as dream girls. It feels ever so well, wrong. … a twisted pop plea for someone to make sense of it all. “I try to love you but I don’t know what I’m doing, so I’ll just sit near you for a while and smile,” he sings of his bedside vigils, his commitment tainted with confusion. Truth unwrapped, ‘Girls On Medication’ socks you right in the aorta til you’re as heavy-hearted as poor Vincent.”  Abeano

“…Sounds something like a hip-hop-influenced Velvet Underground.” The New Yorker

Order 7″ Vinyl from ourselves, Rough Trade(UK) or Insound (US) and Digital Download from all usual DSPs.

Darwin Deez US Tour begins today.  These will be the final round of shows in support of the debut album.  Touring non-stop since January 2010, the last month has seen Darwin tackle his biggest shows yet, with a prime slot on John Peel’s stage at Glastonbury, Germany’s monstrous Southside and Hurricane Festivals, a first trip to Spain, that included Ibiza Rocks, and most recently Brazil and a fantastic fan-funded show in Rio to 1,000 lucky Carioca.  

The full dates are below. 

U.S. Tour Dates

07/06 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill

07/07 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo

07/12 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s  (support Caged Animals)

07/13 – Washington, DC – Black Cat (support Caged Animals)

07/15 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom (support Caged Animals)

07/16 – Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall

We’re delighted to premiere this remix by Brooklyn’s Teenage Desert, who have significantly upped the UV-factor of the first UK offering from Caged Animals, “Girls On Medication.” 

Teenage Desert’s main-man Z. Cole Smith, a long time friend of the Caged crew, was actually the person who introduced us to the band, via their limited 2010 cassette release, and was an original member of Caged Animal Vincent Cacchione’s alter-ego, Soft Black. He’s also known internationally for his relentless onstage energy and much-loved dreamy guitar drama as a member of both Darwin Deez’s and Beach Fossils’s touring ensemble. We’re delighted he has found time between recording his debut album and his duties on electric guitar in Beach Fossils to turn in this somehow upbeat, sun-baked, and psychedelic remix. 

Hold tight also for a forthcoming remix from Hyperdub’s LV, and also the official Girls On Medication video.

Thank’s Cole!

At a time when wan wallpaper pap, not pop, is relentlessly sold as a never-ending nirvana of supposedly exciting and alternative culture it’s refreshing to find a pop persona whose ideas are truly inspired by the detail of counter-culture Americana. Caged Animals is a wired world, but, simultaneously, an innocent version of darker concepts, mixing lyric and melody to create the sweetest sensation. It’s a world inhabited by Raymond Carver vignettes and exhibitions of raw Neil Rough portraiture, or Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’ (1959), and it could be sound tracked by ‘The Elephant 6’ collective playing Dion covers, Sun Ra’s future-jazz moogs and grooves, no wave’s awkward ‘DNA’, or the Captain Beefheart, that we are recently so bereft of, at his most playful. Philosophical accompaniment references Lao Tzu, THC, New Jersey’s radio heroes, WFMU, and beyond; cryptic and apocalyptic in almost equal measure, the vision is certainly as important as the lyrical content.

We’re absolutely delighted to welcome Caged Animals to the Lucky Number family.  An incredible album, Eat Their Own, is to be released in September but first here’s “Girls on Medication”. 

“Girls On Medication” will be available w-wide on July 4th, 2011, on beautiful white vinyl (limited to just 500 copies).  Cover artwork below and further details here. Pre-order 7″ Vinyl here.