Londoners Post-punks Cult With No Name release new music
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On CD, download and streaming – the 9th album of CULT WITH NO NAME.
London’s post-punk electronic balladeers are back, but then never quite went away.
Still enjoying the considerable success of their score for the award-winning BLUE VELVET REVISITED with TUXEDOMOON and JOHN FOXX, May ‘19 saw Criterion release the definitive Blu-Ray of DAVID LYNCH’s BLUE VELVET, with BVR included as the main extra at Lynch’s own request. It rocketed up the US Blu-Ray chart. New recordings for projects for KELLI ALI (ex-SNEAKER PIMPS) and THE RESIDENTS soon followed, with RUSTY EGAN (VISAGE) releasing his remix of CWNN’s ‘Swept Away’, and inviting frontman Erik Stein to perform his forthcoming single with guest CHRIS PAYNE (ex-GARY NUMAN).
All fired up, the all-new 13 track album MEDIABURN sees CWNN at the peak of their musical and lyrical powers, as they contemplate a disintegrating society. Typically unleashing a brutal acid wit on the electro-funk of ‘Blind Dogs for the Guides’ and jazz-tinged ‘She Sells Incels’, they still conjure up soaring mournful moments such as ‘By Air of By Sea’ and ‘In Hollywood You Won’t Find Bel-Air’, alongside the pure synthpop of ‘So Much Left to Undo’ and ‘Button on My Desk’. It’s an album that’s dark, sardonic, electronic, acoustic…and everywhere in between.
MEDIABURN includes the usual CWNN special guest appearances. KELLI ALI weaves her vocal magic throughout, and STEVEN BROWN and BLAINE L. REININGER of TUXEDOMOON add evocative saxophone and violin textures.
Disco inferno it may not be, but CWNN still invite you to burn baby, burn.
Order the CD: https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/cult-with-no-name/mediaburn?fbclid=IwAR3d5VU2u58720V-EbzPmBo2o1a1aO3IE0GrhWe0mygBpy8u9UtyIko2Zo0
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/mediaburn/1475990264
