Cults Announce Debut Release, Tour Dates

We’re barely into 2011, and we can already safely predict Cults as one of the year’s most talked-about bands.

Cults may be 2011′s Sleigh Bells. There are a lot of similarities that beg the comparison: they are both boy/ girl duos, they’re both from New York, the members of Cults are both in film school, and Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells looks like a movie star.

But perhaps the most striking similarity is how both bands emerged pretty much from non-existence to being the most the most buzzy bands around by sheer word of mouth in a few months. Cults didn’t even have a Myspace profile until mid-April, which made them pretty hard to find, and even harder to hear.

But the breezy, easy strength of their self-titled 7″ (which recalls Tennis and Best Coast) stirred up enough hype to land the band an old-fashioned major-label style release on Columbia Records. Their debut full-length will come out in May (details tbd) and the band will do some touring both stateside and abroad this spring to support it.

Take a listen to the full 7″ below, and stay tuned for more-details on the full-length debut—they’ll likely be unavoidable this year.

Cults Spring 2011 Tour Dates:
02/05 – Baltimore, MD @ Maryland Institue College of Art
03/10 – Chapel Hill, MC @ Local 506 *
03/11 – Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn *
03/12 – Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree *
03/13 – New Orleans, LA @ The Saint *
03/15 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgeralds *
03/17-19 – Austin, TX @ South by Southwest
03/22 – Nashville, TN @ The End ^
03/23 – Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
03/24 – Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter ^
03/25 – Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel ^
03/26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas ^
03/30 – Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory
03/31 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
04/01 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
04/02 – Montreal, QC @ II Motore
04/04 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
04/06 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
04/07 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
04/08 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
04/11 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Café
04/12 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
04/14 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

* = w/ Small Black
^ = w/ Asobi Seksu

[via Consequence of Sound]