PEACE, LOVE & THE CULT
Pop culture is choking on its own vomit again. Everywhere you look, signs of psychedelia are being thrown-up in a mix with all of rock history since, creating the utter mish-mash we’ve come to think of as pop present. Take for example, the Cult—a good new British band who’ve regurgitated more than their fair share of psychedelic surfaces.
PEACE, LOVE & THE CULT
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Jim Farber
Pop culture is choking on its own vomit again. Everywhere you look, signs of psychedelia are being thrown-up in a mix with all of rock history since, creating the utter mish-mash we’ve come to think of as pop present.
Take for example, the Cult—a good new British band who’ve regurgitated more than their fair share of psychedelic surfaces. Yet beneath their long hair, love beads, light show, groovy song titles and the mystical cover of their first U.S. LP, Love, they’re just an everyday bunch of 1986 kids. “We’re not out to revitalize the ’60s and say, ‘OK, everybody’s got to wear the gear and get all the lights and drop acid,”’ explains lead belter Ian Astbury, brushing back his neo-long hair. “We’re just saying there were some positive elements from that period which we’ve been influenced by.”
Such as? “The main thing about that period to me was the imagination and the color,” Astbury answers. “I’m stimulated by those colors and the flamboyance of the clothes and their ideas.”