Singer’s coming out of his Cage

CAGE the Elephant frontman Matt Shultz’s new look has a high-tech purpose. The Grammywinning singer recently performed at the Pilgrimage Festival in Tennessee in a full-body iridescent suit that also covered his face. One concert review stated the “gradual peeling of that surreal number” from his body, “made for compelling hourlong performance art.” We’re told the look isn’t just an aesthetic choice à la Kanye West but has another purpose. Designed and 3D-printed by tech company Beyond Protocol, the suit measures Shultz’s biometric data — such as his brain waves — and will allow techies to build further apps from the data, with the purpose of drawing attention to mental health. “I have always been interested in technology and art forms,” Shultz told Page Six. The “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” singer, who has admitted to suffering from depression in the past, joked to us that he wanted to name the suit “Not Bulletproof” as a “statement of a bit of weakness, in which I believe there is great strength.” We’re told he’ll be donning the get-up at more concerts. “I love being onstage and it’s where I feel most myself,” he told us. “While the pandemic has been difficult for many of us, I feel it has opened a window for the opportunity of having great conversations that in the past may have made the record skip at a party.”