Cage The Elephant at London’s Brixton Academy (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Matt Shultz has directed the video for Cage The Elephant‘s new single Black Madonna.
The single takes us back to the band’s fifth album Social Cues which was released last year after recording sessions in Nashville and Los Angeles, written at a time when Shultz was creating fictional characters in a bid to help him deal with the break-up of a relationship – ‘a vehicle to act out things that are hard to confront’, he elaborated.
“When I’m creating, I try to put myself in a reactive state of improvisational thought. I let images just arise in my mind and wait for it to evoke an emotional response and then when it does, I know I’m on to something. I was watching a lot of Fassbinder films, like World on a Wire and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. I was thinking about their beauty coupled with the graphic surrealism of Aronofsky.”
