Dark Energy

Album: Hidden City (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • This tribal rocker touches on the origins of the creation of the universe. Ian Astbury told Uncut magazine the song was, "inspired by an article about physics in an old issue of Omni magazine."
  • The song was released as the first single from The Cult's tenth studio album. The "Hidden City" title came from Ian Astbury watching Carlos Tevez score a goal for Italian club Juventus. In his celebration, he threw up his shirt, revealing the words, "Ciudad Oculta" - "hidden city" in Spanish, and also the name of the impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood in which Tevez was raised. "Of course, it's got 'cult' hidden there," smiled Astbury to Mojo, "and like me Tevez never settles, he always wants to go home. I thought, 'oh my God, it didn't say Adidas or Nike or 'Buy my s--t.' It said, 'Here I am on the world stage, and I'm thinking of my community.'"

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