Caged Animals
New York City, New York, United States | INDIE
Music
Press
"If Alan Vega was 40 years younger, he'd be doing this. Or if they remade Blue Velvet, this could work as the soundtrack." - The Guardian
"Something like a hip-hop-influenced Velvet Underground." - The New Yorker
"[Caged Animals] songs sound thick, like a muggy summer afternoon haze. This is a new track he just dropped from his base in Brooklyn… heavy doses of shoegaze and dreamwave while keeping its active pop ingredients." - YVYNYL
Discography
"S/T" - 2010 - CS (Healing Light) (sold out)
"All My Friends" - 2010 - Digital Single
"Warped Souls" - 2010 - Digital Single
"Girls On Medication" - 2011 - 7"/Digital Single (Lucky Number Music)
"Teflon Heart" - 9/2011 - 7"/Digital Single (Lucky Number Music)
"Eat Their Own" - 9/2011 - LP (Lucky Number Music)
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Bio
Caged Animals is the nom-de-plume of Brooklyn's Vincent Cioffe Cacchione.
After being hit by a truck while working his day-job as a weed-delivery man, Cacchione bought himself a laptop and created the work that is Caged Animals. One part Freudian slip and two parts acid casualty; Caged Animals' music oscillates wildly between musical personae and motif. Creating a technicolor palette where all of this prolific Brooklyn songwriter's split personalities exist in equal proportion.
Drawing on influences that range from the ultra-modern to the ultra-passe, Caged Animals comes on like the last blip and squeak of a world gone wrong. Something like a Futurist Taylor Swift getting her inner freak out on a stoned crawl through Downtown NYC 1981.
Cut-up images, stream of conscious freak outs, and a hyperactive attention to texture, color the album with a psychedelic but totally dance-able timbre. Like No-Wave for the Ren & Stimpy generation. Like New-Wave made by a very stoned folkie.
Caged Animals captures Cacchione (known previously for his concept heavy and literate work with Brooklyn's Soft Black - 2007's Blue Gold a somber account of his father's twilight years & 2009's The Earth is Black a concept record based around a series of nightmares) in a light-hearted mood, tackling each lyric and melody with the most innocent portion of his creative spirit. Free association runs rampant as does a sense of sound and melody coming together fast. All of this coupled with a punk-rock sense of disregard is what will make this record very appealing to a lot of folks, young and old.
Part of this change in tone might have something to do with a change in setting. During the recording of his first couple album's with Soft Black, Cacchione lived in New Jersey where he was looking after his mother who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis. Caged Animals finds Cacchione in a different place spiritually and physically. Written and recorded in his apartment in the energetic Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Caged Animals music appears to
coax a more carefree vibe out of the sometimes heavy songwriter.
Making their live debut in January of 2011, supporting Brooklyn's weird-pop quintet, Friends. Vincent Cacchione enlisted the help of his girlfriend Magali, little sister Talya, and childhood friend Patrick Curry to bring these weird, bedroom gems to a higher plain of communication and rock and roll.
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