“And I think that hole had happened at one of our earlier gigs. “There was vomit and dogshit on the floor, and, like, a human-sized hole in the wall,” he says. “We’d have parties in a basement with 300 kids crammed in,” Shultz says.
“We were hitting the underground house show thing hard,” Shultz says. As teenagers, they began kicking up dust around Bowling Green. One of his early bands, Maëlle (the name, he explains, came to him after waking up from a dream), also featured Dan Luke and The Raid drummer Kendrick Brent. So of course I’m influenced by my family, but when it came down to it I formed the creative part of myself mostly on my own, just sitting with a guitar in my hands for hours.”Įventually, Shultz, who began writing songs “around the age of 12 or 13,” also forged his own path in music. So I had all this time on my own out in the country to be with my own thoughts and my own creativity.
I’m the youngest of four, and all of a sudden I was the only kid. If anything, Shultz continues, “I think the way Matt and Brad’s success affected me was that they left the house, and then our other brother, Jeremy, grew up and went away, too.
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“You know, like, figuring out how to do math and stuff.” So they were already off doing their thing when I was just learning about life.” He laughs. “Matt is 12 years older than me and Brad is 14. “I didn't even realize what was happening with them at first because I was just a little kid,” he says. Musically speaking, his family’s artistic inclinations stretch back at least a century-“my great-grandfather played piano for silent theaters and stuff when he was, like, 12 years old,” he says-although the most widely-disseminated fact about Shultz’s upbringing in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is that two of his older brothers, Matt and Brad, are co-founders of successful modern rockers Cage the Elephant.Įven there, Shultz, who is more than a decade younger than his two siblings, didn’t experience their success in the usual way. And let it be noted that prior to that time, he didn’t have the most typical of life experiences either. “Or at least my life.”Ĭlearly, it’s been a tumultuous period for Shultz. As for the subject matter? “That’s basically the last few years of life,” he says. “We don’t want our music to have a timestamp,” the 21-year-old Shultz says about the melting pot of sounds and styles heard on Out Of The Blue. Legs are bleeding, faces are numb and Shultz declares his band to be the “diamond kings of smut.” All the while, the music throbs and pulses and twitches and buzzes with the energy and enthusiasm and inexperience of youth, bursting with harsh, distorted guitar chords, blown-out synths squiggles and hopped-up rhythms-as well as, on occasion, moments of stunning and sincere melodic beauty. Throughout the album’s 10 tracks, people are passed out on curbs under neon signs (“Black Cat Heavy Metal”), breaking hearts over rolled-up dollar bills (“Exoskeleton”), leaving baggies lying in passenger seats (“Money Mouth”) and faking smiles and feeling ashamed (“Golden Age”).
Anthony Joiner (bass, piano, vocals) and Kendrick Don-Reid Brent (drums, percussion, vocals)- know a thing or two about the last part of that equation, as evidenced by the songs and subject matter on Out Of The Blue. Shultz and his Dan Luke and The Raid band mates-Dylan T. You’re dealing with your problems”-the singer, songwriter and guitarist pauses-“even as you’re going out and partying and getting into trouble all the time.” “It’s about being in that space in your 20s where you’re trying to get your shit together and figure things out in life. “It's like a coming-of-age crisis,” says Daniel Shultz about Out Of The Blue, the messy and melodic debut album from his band, Dan Luke and The Raid.
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