Formerly the solo project of Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sean Ragon, currently a "post-industrial folk" music four-piece that he fronts, Cult Of Youth issued their first album as a proper band, Love Will Prevail, in September. Songs like "Man and Man's Ruin" are marked by a clash of urgent violin, acoustic guitar, rising strains of trumpet, pretty surreal female backing vocals and the strong male lead of Ragon climb over deep pulsing drumbeats. Also with Pharmakon, Outmode, CRAOW
— Leilani Polk