Ghost Dance

the signature cult themes of misanthropy, disillusionment, and an obsession with tribal and native american subject matter abound here, as they would throughout the band's body of work, but the arrangements on ghost dance are daringly sparse ... full descriptionand sometimes delicate. while there's a wild despair in astbury's voice, and a frenetic nervousness in duffy's guitar licks, there's still room for introspection between the notes. ghost dance is influenced more by goth acts such as bauhaus than by the '70s heavy metal that tints later cult recordings. the overwhelming metal excess that surfaces in later cult albums is absent; instead, ghost dance is a collection of elegant and delicate simplicity.