On their second album, Kentucky's Cage the Elephant display an innate sense of when to tighten up and when to let it hang out. "Shake Me Down" is powered by a buffed-to-a-sheen jangle-guitar riff, while the chorus of "Right Before My Eyes" is a wonderland of layered, spiraling hooks. But the band know how to deliver their carefully calibrated anthems as if they were effortless, drowning the hipster-baiting "Indy Kidz" in enough fuzz to make it almost feel like an in-the-moment rough cut.