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Beyond Good And Evil

The prospects of a Cult comeback sure didn't look good. Brit expats Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy hadn't recorded an album together in seven years, their last two records stunk, and the odds were pretty high that a new-millennium return from an Eighties band stuck in the Seventies would wallow in nost...

2001 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Although one imagines principals Ian Astbury (vocals) and Billy Duffy (guitar) bristling at the thought, at the end of the day, the Cult boils down to a really great singles band. The virtually identical High Octane Cult and Pure Cult collections make a solid case for this, distilling an often lugubrious catalogue down to one airtight disc of dark but undeniably danceable and fist-pump-worthy hard...

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