Just Writing About “Cults” By Cults…

I like music a lot and listen to it all day. So sporadically, over the next several days, I’m going to be writing about the twelve albums I’m listening to the most lately. They’re not in any certain order because I don’t think you can judge music that way. This is the just how I wrote them down. Actually, they’re probably in alphabetical order by artist name, since I simply parsed my Rhapsody library to find them.

And, for the record, I’m by no means under the delusion that I’m a music critic or expert. All I intend to do is communicate why I like them while trying not to judge them esthetically. The second album is “Cults” by Cults…

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I’m not a fan of lo-fi at all, but if the songs are good enough I don’t care about particular sounds. The first two songs on this album are great. “Abducted” has an excellent chorus, especially the first line of it. When the girl, Madeline Follin, sings “It tore me apart ’cause I really loved him” you can really feel it. It’s a great melody. And “Go Outside,” which I’m sure you’ve heard, has an extremely light-as-air melody that is also sad, too. If I understood the words better I’d probably never get it out of my head.

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Again, this isn’t what I’m used to liking — it sounds like it could be a remastered album from the fifties — so I can’t say I really like the album or even the songs as a whole, but there are enough interesting parts throughout that I keep coming back to it.

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Michael Island