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Oct 16, 201380Despite some bummer subject matter, this could be the year's most fun album. [Nov 2013, p.84]
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Oct 14, 201380It’s the love-struck youth of their typical songs striking out against the disappointment, and, like the album itself, coming out on top.
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Oct 14, 201380The album's sound is so alluring that it sometimes threatens to overwhelm the delicate vocals and melodies. Still, Static is a vivid, poignant tour of heartbreak that's much more enjoyable than that description suggests.
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Oct 15, 201378The layers at times get a little too thick, enough to hide some of Follin’s words. But as packed as the songs get with incident and sound, the gooey goodness of Cults’ candy pop wins out every time.
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Oct 14, 201375Cults are flipping open your gauzy shades and letting the sunshine in, letting you slap on your best Stepford smile as the world falls apart. What else should we do? Enjoy the ear-candy.
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Oct 15, 201370Whereas Cults' debut was more carefree in its breezy melodies, Static has a heavier heart, presenting a band with not only a better understanding of their music, but of each other as human beings.
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Oct 15, 201370So far, Cults have relied on that brand of fresh, unbridled energy that fuels new groups like them, making Static a fine example of an album running perfectly off of kinetics.
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Oct 15, 201370On Static, they arrive at a place where they’re able to sustain new layers of complexity across their songs.
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Oct 14, 201370Get me out of here, take me back: That's breaking up in a nutshell, and Cults till this soil multiple ways.
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Oct 14, 201368Cults' sophomore album sidesteps presumptions about a rising, major-label band and admirably finds contentment not in what they could be, but what they are right now.
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Oct 15, 201365Cults is a pop band--albeit a very distinctive one--and Static only works when the band delivers on the melodies that made its debut so compelling.
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Oct 16, 201360Static is remarkably self-assured and meticulously produced, but such traits cannot disguise its throwback trappings. It’s hard to look away from its unfortunate backstory, and the music never really makes a point to consider it outside of its context.
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Oct 15, 201360It’s a credit to Cults that Static is such an enticing initial listen; no one now is pulling the retro Spector treatment with as much stylistic confidence as they are. Over time, though, Static becomes more of the same, that doomed relationship that your friend just won’t get over.
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Oct 14, 201360It’s an album about what happens next rather than looking back. They might be a band in thrall to the 1960s but this is a record that tells us to live in the now.
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Oct 14, 201358Static lacks variety. It’s just a short-fused, gloomy rehash, and what little has been changed isn’t really an improvement.