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The Drums broke onto the music scene with their acclaimed Summertime EP in 2010. A promising debut ensued, and barely a year after its released the band followed up with Portamento, a more personal affair of solemn-pop. Frontman Jonathan Pierce is in a pensive mood as he chats to FL about inner-band tensions, getting away from that ‘surf band’ tag, and dropping the song that helped them hit the big time.

It is likely that many people will stereotype The Cult with the image of mid 80s rock pose bombast, all denim and leather, long hair and Marshall stacks that saturated the video channels of the time. That was the era of Electric, an album that took them to the masses and was the point at which their sound changed dramatically from the dark and swirling psychedelic post punk that characterised their first two albums – Dreamtime and Love