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01. Teenagers In Heat                                             1:54
02. This Summer I'll Make It Up To You                            2:04
03. Teflon Heart                                                  3:36
04. Hazy Girls                                                    2:45
05. Piles Of $$$                                                  3:35
06. The NJ Turnpike                                               2:31
07. Feelingz                                                      3:09
08. All The Beautiful Things In The World                         2:58
09. Somebody To Use                                               3:06
10. Lips That Turn The Light To Fire                              3:38
11. Instant <3breaker                                             3:57
12. Unknown Title                                                 2:28

Release Notes:

Names like Arthur Russell or Beck get cited often as influences, but it
is rare that upon listening to a modern artist you feel the
genre-fusing depth of either of these legends. In New Jersey's Vincent
Cacchione, aka Caged Animals, we bring you the exception to the rule.
Known also for his work with Soft Black, the now-Bushwick resident,
Cacchione, has created a highly personal, wistfully nostalgic world
that basks in the golden glow of love both new ("Lips That Turn the
Light to Fire") and old ("Teflon Heart"), in the haze of regret ("This
Summer I'll Make It Up To You") and the blur of days gone by ("The NJ
Turnpike"). Taken collectively, these are songs which gather resonance
with every listen and poignancy with every play, lending increasing
depth and profundity towards the fleeting moments in life which we only
wish could linger a little more.

At a time when wan wallpaper pap, not pop, is relentlessly sold as a
never-ending nirvana of supposedly exciting and alternative culture
it's refreshing to find a pop persona whose ideas are truly inspired by
the detail of counter-culture Americana. Caged Animals is a wired
world, but, simultaneously, an innocent version of darker concepts,
mixing lyric and melody to create the sweetest sensation. It's a world
inhabited by Raymond Carver vignettes and exhibitions of raw Neil Rough
portraiture, or Robert Frank's 'The Americans' (1959), and it could be
sound tracked by 'The Elephant 6' collective playing Dion covers, Sun
Ra's future-jazz moogs and grooves, no wave's awkward 'DNA', or the
Captain Beefheart at his most playful.

The tracklist on the promo only has 11 tracks listed, yet the CD has
12. I don't know what the last track is, maybe it's a radio edit of a
song or something, I don't know. As a result, i've tagged it as Unknown
Title.