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[Best Albums Of 2011] – #22 – Cults – “Cults”

Frank — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:00:51 +0000

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Artist: Cults
Hometown: New York, New York, USA
Members: Brian Oblivion, Madeline Follin
Formed: 2010
Released: 2011
Genre: Indie, Pop
Label: Columbia
Singles: “Go Outside”, “Abducted”

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[Watch] – New Video By Cults – “Go Outside”

Frank — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:19:30 +0000

[Listen/Download] – Cults – “Cults”

Frank — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:30:41 +0000

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[Listen] – New Album By Cults – “Cults”

Frank — Mon, 23 May 2011 03:20:18 +0000

For those of you (mainly bloggers and writers) who’ve had this album for the last few weeks you’ll know just how good this is. For those of you who haven’t then you’re about to be bedazzled.

It’s been over a year since Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin sauntered onto the scene as Cults with their hot-damn-how-good-is-this-sugary-sweet-dream-pop three-song Bandcamp posting. Nobody knew anything about them, they didn’t post their songs to blogs or sites and just uploaded them to their Bandcamp page, but within a week they were blowing up from here to the indie blogs in Timbuktu.

Between then and now they’ve released 7″ singles on Forest Family Records, they’ve toured the U.S and Europe, they’ve released other singles on Record Store Day, they’ve posted remixes, videos, b-sides, collaborations with family members, and everything else you can think of in between. Oh, they even signed a major fucking record deal with Columbia/Sony, but now we have the entire album to make our ears salivate and our mouth blister. It’s been delayed for a little but finally comes out next week and thanks to NPR the entire jovial thing is streaming below.

Album of the year contender? Damn right.

[Listen] – New Song By Cults – “Make Time”

Frank — Sun, 15 May 2011 11:00:26 +0000

I think it’s only fair that since they pushed back the release date of their eagerly-awaited debut album, that they put a new non-album track out there for us to hear, right?

The song “Make Time” is listed on the Irish iTunes store as a single with a release date of May 6th meaning it’s been around for about 10 days without anyone knowing. You’d think that when you release music for people to buy that they’d make an announcement that it’d been released so that, you know, people can buy it and stuff, but I guess not with Cults.

Maybe they’re already millionaires? Maybe they’ve already moved into their Scrooge McDuck Money Bin and don’t need the cash? Oh, and I resent the generalisation that Scottish people are tight with their money, we’re actually a very charitable people and spend more money at Christmas than any other country in the U.K. Granted that most of it’s on alcohol, but still.

Anyway, the song in question is beateriffic with handclaps flowering over the edge of Madeline’s feathery echo-tinged voice as it flits across their now-de facto-upbeat-twinkly sound. You can grab it from iTunes for a buck or so (it’s not available in the U.S. but you can get it from the Irish iTunes store apparently) or you can just listen to it on repeat below.

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[Watch] – New Video By Cults – “Abducted”

Frank — Fri, 13 May 2011 05:47:55 +0000

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[Listen] – New Song By Cults – “Abducted”

Frank — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:33:50 +0000

With every new song that I hear from Cults, my anticipation-chubby gets that little bit more anticipatory.

Does that even make sense? I don’t fucking know, but with the rash of new bands that came out last year and released/are releasing an album this year, Cults and Yuck might be the only two who are consistently good. Tennis kinda fell by the wayside after releasing their debut album in January and new artist Panda Bear’s album “Tomboy” literally sucked.

Well now the kindly dudes at NPR are streaming another new track from Cults’ debut album and presumably a week before the release of the album they’ll have the whole thing to listen to, two, too. to. tu.

Updated with a Soundcloud stream. ~~Check it out below at around the 26 minute mark.~~

[Listen] – New Song By Cults – “You Know What I Mean”

Frank — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:00:06 +0000

Unless you’ve seen Cults live in the last 12 months then this new song is the first in close to a year (except that “Oh My God” one they did with accompanying weird video). This time in 2010 they had only just come bounding onto the scene, layered-guitar-driven-dream-pop in tow. They had upload three songs to their Bandcamp page and as soon as one blog got a hold of them they ended up everywhere, and rightly so, those three songs were gems.

They’ve done a few guest appearances on other artist’s work, most notably DOM’s “Bowl Cut” and featuring alongside Caroline Polachek and singer Madeline’s brother Richie on Guards’ debut EP, but that’s likely the extent of recorded new music from them. Today, however, they uploaded a brand new song to their Soundcloud page and if “Go Outside” was the best of those three (it was), this new one is the second best; it starts off like a 60′s Motown crooner and drifts off into a bit of a wall-a-sound jam-sammich.

Presumably it’ll be on their major label debut LP coming out in a few, but give it a listen over at their soundcloud page or below thanks to Will.

[Listen/Download] – Brand New Song By Cults – “Oh My God”

Frank — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:00:17 +0000

I gush, what can I say? Sorry? Ok, maybe sometimes a “sorry” is warranted, but most of the time it’s not because I’m not the only one gushing.

The latter part of that sentence is definitely true for Cults. I gushed back in March when they showed up unannounced out of nowhere and turned us all on. I gushed when Forest Family Records told us they were their first signing/release on the new label, and I gushed when I got the limited edition vinyl.

Now I’m gushing because thanks to Adult Swim’s glorious 8 Singles in 8 Weeks project, we now have a brand new, gush-worthy Cults song. It’s a little more upbeat than their previous three songs and the words are easier to make out, but it still has that sweet summer Cults sound to it. Give it a listen below as well as the lead track for their first 7″ single “Go Outside”. They also did a video for it, their first ever video (other than that video that was doing the rounds a month or two ago of them playing live).

Cults – “Oh My God”
Cults – “Go Outside”

[Watch] – Cults Play “Go Outside” Live In NYC

Frank — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:00:36 +0000

Along with Gauntlet Hair, Sleigh Bells, BRAHMS, and Burnt Ones, Cults round out my top five buzz bands of the year so far.

They burst onto the scene back in late February, early March with three ridiculously catchy songs, the biggest hit of which was “Go Outside”. This is what appears to be the first video of them playing anything live, and the sound is just as good as on the 7″ they released via Forest Family Records a few weeks back. It was recorded at NYC’s Mercury Lounge at the start of May and shows the pair (Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin) doing a damn fine job of bringing their big sound to the live stage.

Deek it below and have a gander at my write-up about them back in March and listen to their three songs; “Go Outside”, “Most Wanted”, and “The Curse”.