Review: Offering is a more streamlined and straightforward pop album from Cults

Change often brings concern. If a man finds his way, his current friends are still going to gripe, "What happened to him?" Music fans tend to be less forgiving. Take The Morning Benders. Granted, their switch in sound didn't result in particularly inspiring tunes, but many simply balked at the very idea of POP ETC. To be sure, Cults have done nothing so radical on Offering, but the value to be found here will much depend on the listener's ability to let go of the scrappy ruffians that felt so ca...