New Yorker sweethearts Cults were one of the big breakout stories of 2011, their self-titled LP filled with girl-group revivalism, ear-candy melodies, lo-fi hazing, and samples of the Reverend Jim Jones.
They spent their breakout year on the road, too: diminutive —yet mightily-piped!— singer Madeline Follin estimating they played 230 shows and went through eight(!) drummers in 2011. They're keeping up that pace in 2012: with months of shows already booked across two hemispheres.
Cults are also, already, at work on their follow-up LP. Speaking to Follin last week —in advance of their Australian shows, of course— she talked about the next Cults LP thusly:
"Overall, on the next record, everything is going to be a little bit darker, that's the sense I'm getting from what we've been working on. Definitely going into a darker direction, and moving away from the happy, poppyness that everyone talks about," Follin said.
"[That darkness[ has always been there. The first song we wrote was 'Go Outside,' and that sort of set the tone for everything that we do. The fact that it's [even darker] might come from a lot of what we've been listening to: Portishead, MF Doom, DJ Shadow and things like that. When we were writing the first album, we were listening to much happier things like Patience & Prudence, the Shangri-la's, old girl-group records. It's all just a natural progression of our tastes changing, us touring a lot, and figuring out more what we want to be doing."
Make a Memory That Will Stay:
January 13: Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
January 14: Washington, DC - Black Cat
January 19: New York, NY - Webster Hall
January 28: Brisbane, Australia - Fortitude Valley
January 30: Auckland, New Zealand - Silo Park
February 3: Melbourne, Australia - Palace Theatre
February 4: Melbourne, Australia - Footscray Community Arts Centre
February 5: Sydney, Australia - Sydney College of the Arts
February 8: Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre
February 10: Adelaide, Australia - Fowler's Live & UNISA West Courtyards
February 11: Perth, Australia - Perth Cultural Centre
February 12: Fort Canning, Singapore - Laneway Festival
February 15: Tokyo, Japan - Unit
March 2: Hoboken, NJ- Maxwell's
March 3: Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
March 4: Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
March 6: Atlanta, GA - The Earl
March 7: Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
March 9: Orlando, FL - The Plaza Live
March 10: Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
March 11: Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's
March 17: El Paso, TX - Lowbrow Palace
March 18: Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
March 21: Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
March 23: Pamona, CA - The Glass House
March 24: Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones
April 3: Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room
April 4: San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
April 5: San Francisco, CA - Slims
April 6: Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
April 7: Seattle, Washington - Neptune
April 9: Vancouver, BC - Venue
April 11: Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
April 12: Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
April 13: Boulder, CO - Fox Theater
April 14: Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theater
April 16: Minneapolis, MN - First Ave
April 17: Madison, WI - Majestic Theater
April 18: Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Ballroom
April 20: Chicago, IL - Metro
April 21: Bloomington, IN - Rhinos
April 22: Ferndale, MI - The Magic Bag
April 23: Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
April 25: Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
April 26: Montréal, QC - Corona Theatre
April 27: South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
April 29: Northhampton, MA - Pearl Street Nightclub
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