Thank You Happy Birthday 2010 was a year of ’90s overload as indie groups reunited and cashed in on nostalgia for that simpler, grungier time. Young Kentucky band Cage…
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Thank You Happy Birthday

Reviewed by Andy Greenwald | Jan 06, 2011
2010 was a year of ’90s overload as indie groups reunited and cashed in on nostalgia for that simpler, grungier time. Young Kentucky band Cage the Elephant offer a contemporary alternative to the Alternative Nation with their sophomore album, Thank You Happy Birthday. Charismatic lead shrieker Matt Shultz wears his slacker influences proudly: On quiet-quiet-LOUD pogofests ''Aberdeen'' and ''Shake Me Down,'' sounds cribbed from the Pixies and Nirvana seem as fresh as an unworn flannel. B

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Future ironic moshpit classic Aberdeen

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Originally posted Jan 05, 2011 Published in issue #1137 Jan 14, 2011 Order article reprints