Album review: Cage the Elephant's 'Melophobia'

It's hard to think of many peers for Cage the Elephant. They're a young Kentucky rock band riffing on Zep and garage-punk without retro nostalgia; whip-smart songwriters un-beloved by hipsters; rock-radio hitmakers who play with the unhinged mania of a warehouse set. On "Melophobia" they're in a class of their own among big, unit-shifting rock bands who can play with the scrap and imagination of van-tour vermin.

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