New Sounds for 2011: Cults

Impossibly hard to Google, unless you want to know about actual cults (fact: members of cults wear strange clothes), San Diego's Cults are a boy/girl duo specialising in sunny lo-fi pop.


It's a mixture of soulful pop from across the last 50 years, that Swedish pop sound that makes you want to move to Europe to rehabilitate your tired constitution, and some of those bedroom-kids who have been making music over the last few years (Beach House, Summer Camp et al).

Utterly charming, full of innocence (and reverb and glock) and completely the opposite of the image the name Cults conjures up, this is the sort of music that puts a great big smile on your face. Check out three tracks via the duo's bandcamp site below:

http://cults.bandcamp.com/