Music video by Cults performing Cults - Static Album Teaser. C) 2013 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment.

Loaded with insipid lyrics, amateur singing, and childish melodies, it's pretty clear the the pop duo known as Cults has no desire whatsoever to mature their sound

Static is the second studio album by American indie pop band Cults, released by Columbia Records on 15 October 2013. Album title and themes. Of the album's title, band member Brian Oblivion said, "There's a feeling our generation has. The feeling there's always something better around the corner, that everyone is born to be a star. The feeling that life is waiting for you, and yet it’s not happening.

Writing and performing songs with an ex, as Cults did on their second album, Static, is probably a special circle of hell, but when the results are this good, it's worth it. The album's imagery hints at Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion's breakup - their figures are turned apart instead of toward each other, as on Cults' cover - and yet their music is stronger than ever, balancing the elements they set forth on their debut with fewer gimmicks and more complexity.

It was released on March 17, 2009. The album's title is a reference to the die-hard fans who have supported the band for so long.

Cults’ 2011 self-titled debut album was a triumph. Release Date: Oct 15, 2013 Record label: Columbia Records Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop. 70 Music Critic Score How the Music Critic Score works. Static - Fairly Good, Based on 20 Critics.

Static isn’t a perfect album, but it contains enough promising signs of evolution to predict a long career for Cults. On Static, the band uses noisier guitars and more complicated arrangements to push at the edges of their sound. The album’s darker tone is an interesting shift but it also comes at the expense of some of Cults’ wilder moments.

Static is the second studio album by American indie pop band Cults, released by Columbia Records on 15 October 2013. Static (Cults album).

Cults' combination of mid-'60s girl-group and cusp-of-the-'90s shoegazing is still bewitching but takes a more stripped-down form here, and packs more of a thwack.

On Static, the second album from Manhattan duo Cults, she teases it out more than ever. Since they started touring their self-titled debut on Columbia, Follin and her bandmate Brian Oblivion suffered the kind of strain that’s common to musicians who juggle a music project and a romantic relationship at the same time. In the spring of 2012, Follin and Oblivion ended their romantic partnership, then teamed up again as Cults to record Static. Like countless other acts that have undergone the same reconfiguration, the two sound more in sync than ever as friends.