2011, Columbia / In The Name Of

Ever since posting 3 songs anonymously up on Bandcamp in the spring of 2010, excitement and intrigue has been swirling around Cults, with the buzz building to a fever pitch early this year. Their self-titled LP is chock full of some of the most deliciously offbeat, slanted and enchanted songs you're likely to hear all year. Expanding on the off-kilter loveliness of tracks like "Most Wanted" and "Go Outside," the album compresses key points in the history of pop — everyone from My Bloody Valentine to Phil Spector to Jay Z and Lesley Gore — and takes it down some very unexpected (and sometimes, unexpectedly dark) places indeed. – Disorder Magazine