Album Of The Week: Cult Of Youth Love Will Prevail

This is a big day for new albums: Animal Collective's Centipede Hz, Cat Power's Sun, Jens Lekman's I Know What Love Isn't, the Fresh & Onlys' Long Slow Dance, plenty of others. And all the albums I named have good things going on. But other than the stunning Cat Power album, which I've already written about at length, my favorite LP of the week is one that might otherwise get lost in the shuffle on a busy release date like this one. Brooklyn's Cult Of Youth, a band spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Sean Ragon, specialize in a heady and ritualistic gothic churn. If I were them, I might've waited to drop the new Love Will Prevail until winter, since it's a chilly and unforgiving piece of work. But it's also catchy and propulsive and compulsively listenable, and it's well worth your attention.