Monday, April 9, 2012
New Music deadCAT delivers sociopathic serenades with weareinaCULT
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:36 PM
It’s the mask in the car that’s so troublesome here. In the context of the song it merely being nothing more than a shout out to fellow locals Lee Harvey Oswald’s infamous ski mask, or is it something kept on hand for more sinister purposes.
The rest of the EP unfolds as an inward journey of sorts. These four songs are abstract, both sonically and conceptually speaking, and there are no real guitars to be heard throughout most of these songs — save for one bit in the opening number, “Littlefeet,” which comes courtesy of Red Sea bassist Mick Mayer.
weareinaCULT channels some seriously dark thoughts into a few buoyant moments of mangled pop. Nothing could be more ominous here than the closing number, “Dr. Conspiracy’s Last Word,” in which Teusink sings, “Blue flowers in her hair if I dare ask what you mean. Games I don’t wanna play/If I ask to stay, don’t let me. Fame looking in her eyes, a name, it’s a part of older brothers.”
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