Electric - The Cult

From the darkest, gothic depths of West Yorshire (?), springing from the hills, came a band who started out as just another indie/gothic band but ended a career taking the U.S by raging storm. The Cult, like many other bands throughout history went through subsequent changes in both name and style. Once named Southern Death Cult and then Death Cult (I think as soon as they dropped the word 'death', the only way was up) had by the late eighties ditched West Yorkshire for the sunny, glam heights of America, where, eventually all good rock bands/stars go.... It was the previous year, tasting the U.S for the first time in a studio, that the finally named The Cult recorded ...  Read the complete review

The Cult's career has frequently veered from the ridiculous to the...slightly less ridiculous. From their pompous Goth beginnings, through their hippie phase, even a Red Indian period, they've always inspired devotion and laughter in equal measure. In 1987 however, they hit the motherlode. Teaming up with then producer-of-the-moment Rick Rubin, the Def Jam head honcho who had scored huge hits with Run DMC's groundbreaking "Walk This Way" and the Beastie Boys' unreconstructed debut "License To Ill", they stripped all superfluous ornamentation from their sound and transformed themselves into a lean, mean, ahem, rockin' ...  Read the complete review