Unpeeled (Cage the Elephant album)

Unpeeled
Live album by
Cage the Elephant
ReleasedJuly 28, 2017
GenreRock
Length79:15
LabelRCA
ProducerBen Baptie, Cage the Elephant
Cage the Elephant chronology
Tell Me I'm Pretty
(2015) 		Unpeeled
(2017) 		Social Cues
(2019)
Singles from Unpeeled
  1. "Whole Wide World"
    Released: June 21, 2017
  2. "Sweetie Little Jean"
    Released: July 7, 2017
  3. "Rubber Ball"
    Released: July 21, 2017
  4. "Cry Baby"
    Released: August 25, 2017
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic72/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Rolling Stone[3]
The Skinny[4]
Under The Radar8/10[5]

Unpeeled is the second live album by American rock band Cage the Elephant. The album was released on July 28, 2017, and features the single "Whole Wide World".[6] The album was recorded on tour during their "Live and Unpeeled" shows in cities such as Los Angeles, Washington DC, Nashville, and Knoxville where the band performed stripped-down renditions of some of the rock band's most beloved songs. The album has 21 tracks: 18 curated songs from past albums and three cover versions, including the lead single.

Guitarist Brad Shultz explained: "We connected with the songs in a way we hadn't before. It was really all about the balance of the intimacy and the delicacy of how we approach playing these songs live acoustically and with strings as we hadn't done before."[7]

  1. ^ "Reviews and Tracks for Unpeeled [Live] by Cage the Elephant". Metacritic. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  2. ^ Wacey, Rob. "Unpeeled – Cage the Elephant". Allmusic. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  3. ^ Dolan, Jon (August 16, 2017). "Review: Cage the Elephant Chase Perfectionism on a Live Album". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  4. ^ Innes, Corrie. "Cage the Elephant – Unpeeled". The Skinny. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  5. ^ the Raven, Matt. "Cage the Elephant: Unpeeled (RCA) Review". Under The Radar. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  6. ^ "PRE-ORDER – Cage The Elephant Unpeeled CD + Digital Album – Cage The Elephant". Cage The Elephant. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
  7. ^ "Cage The Elephant announce new album Unpeeled". Music Existence. June 23, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2021.