Caged Animals is the nom de plume of Yellow Malrone. Yellow Malrone is the fictitious gun-wielding gangster alter-ego of Vincent Cioffe Cacchione, known better to the world as the songwriter behind Psych-Noir sensations, Soft Black.

After being hit by a truck while working his day-job as a "flower"-delivery man, Malrone/Cacchione bought himself a laptop and created the work that is Caged Animals. One part freudian slip and two parts acid casualty; the first offering from Caged Animals 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 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 (between April 2009 and March 2010), the album's 12 tracks appear to coax a more carefree vibe out of the sometimes heavy songwriter.

Neither Malrone nor Cacchione could be reached for a statement. But judging by the breadth of their new record, it seems like they're both highly psyched about it. We think you'll dig it too.
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