80s Music Central News

Its been two years since we heard from ex-Cult frontman Ian Astbury, in the form of the rushed, largely unnoticed Holy Barbarians project (his first since the Cult split up in 1995). The record tentatively titled Transcendental Youth Cult is his first true solo effort. "I know it’s the best thing I've done in 10 years," remarks Astbury. That means alot when 10 years encompasses every Cult album since 1987’s Electric. The Cult eventually toyed with the marriage of electronica and rock and roll on their 1994 curtain call The Cult, but it wasn’t until now that Astbury has found perfect harmony between sequenced loops and electric guitars via producer Rick Rubin.