Artist: Cults
Title: Cults
Genre: Indie Pop
Release Date: 29th July 2011
Label: Sony Music
Album Review
The CULTS are a young band with young members (I think that both of them are around 21 years old) so you can guess how they sound like... Yes, you got it; it is mid-60’s till late 70’s! And one of the reasons that inspired the band to title itself CULTS was the Jonestown massacre where the followers of Jim Jones committed mass suicide. What they found in that incident that inspired them? That besides all the bad things or maybe within them, some good ones can exist. That you can chose your own way of doing things, the sense of communion, the common front and at the end that beautiful things can be said by bad people. Really?
I bypass the fact that their sound gave me the impression that I was listening to a Pop bootleg LP which someone dug out and put it into circulation again and that Follin’s voice brings to my mind flower power in a trip mode. The fact remains that their music sounds and is as college music as it can be of the kind you see in a typical hippy movie. Their lyrics are like liberté, égalité, fraternité drained from all the blood of the French Revolution. And the other fact is that for reasons unknown to me this band signed with Sony after some kind of internet hype they got. For Christ’s sake, there are so many of this kind of “bands” playing at the squares, street corners, playing for the coins thrown into their hats. We don’t buy their CD’s, we save the money for better music.
Tracklist
01. Abducted – 2:52
02. Go Outside – 3:23
03. You Know What I Mean – 2:30
04. Most Wanted – 3:03
05. Walk At Night – 3:06
06. Never Heal Myself – 3:02
07. Oh My God – 3:19
08. Never Saw The Point – 3:02
09. Bad Things – 3:38
10. Bumper – 2:39
11. Rave On – 2:52
Line-up
Madeline Follin – Vocals
Brian Oblivion – Vocals, guitar, percussion
Websites
http://cultscultscults.com
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 3
Sound: 4
Total: 3.5 / 10
