Cults
Host
Release Date: Sep 18, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Sinderlyn
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Album Review: Host by Cults
Very Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 7.5/10
I always cringe when a band of my liking announces that their new album is a radical re-imagining of their sound and it’s dynamic. So when I read the press release about Cults’ fourth full-length LP Host, I cringed. Thankfully my trepidations were quickly replaced with optimism as the opening track “Trials” ambushed me with a symphonic vibe, complete with strings, spry synths, and a dreamy chorus.
Based on rating 6.8/10
The indie-pop world has completed several rotations around the sun since Cults first released their Day-Glo earworm "Go Outside. " The New York duo's synthesis of girl-group harmonies and Jonestown imagery was praised, at the time, for Trojan horsing a conceptual record about anxiety into soundbites ready for an iTunes commercial. Along with Sleigh Bells' menacing cheerleader blasts and Foster the People's bluesy hooks about Columbine, they unwittingly became part of a small trend that took the tragedies of American nihilism and washed them out in comparatively mellow, 1960s-inspired tones.
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