- Band Name: Cults
- Record Label: Columbia Records
- Release Date: Oct 15, 2013
- 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.
- Record Label: Columbia Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 15
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Mixed: 4 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 14, 201358Static lacks variety. It’s just a short-fused, gloomy rehash, and what little has been changed isn’t really an improvement.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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