Static - Cults
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  • Summary: Produced with Shane Stoneback and Ben Allen, the emotions around a breakup is the central theme of the second full-length release from the Brooklyn pop duo of Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Oct 16, 2013
    80
    Despite some bummer subject matter, this could be the year's most fun album. [Nov 2013, p.84]
  2. Oct 14, 2013
    80
    The 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.
  3. Oct 14, 2013
    80
    It’s the love-struck youth of their typical songs striking out against the disappointment, and, like the album itself, coming out on top.
  4. Oct 14, 2013
    70
    Get me out of here, take me back: That's breaking up in a nutshell, and Cults till this soil multiple ways.
  5. 70
    On Static, they arrive at a place where they’re able to sustain new layers of complexity across their songs.
  6. Oct 14, 2013
    68
    Cults' 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.
  7. 58
    Static lacks variety. It’s just a short-fused, gloomy rehash, and what little has been changed isn’t really an improvement.

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Oct 15, 2013
    8
    With the breakup of their professional relationship Madeline and Brian have consolidated their sound using their breakup as fodder for this amazingly strong and decisive album. The tracks go from strength to strength, drawing you in and giving you an honest glimpse pf what happened. It never feels sordid. Its dark, catchy and damn likable. Excellent second album. Expand