Cut Cult

Why are Cut Cult?

Because lugging heavy gear around the world to produce music and play concerts is a cathartic and religious experience.

Who are Cut Cult?

Brian Borcherdt, Loel Campbell, and Matt McQuaid are three of the forming, former, and current members of Holy Fuck (XL Records, Kobalt), who live in Nova Scotia and really enjoy making sounds together. Brian and Loel met while Brian was a record store employee and Loel was a fifteen year old aspiring drummer. Both were from ‘the sticks’ and both wanted to find some kind of community. They made the first Holy Fuck records together and were later joined by Matt ‘punchy’ McQuaid on bass. Once scattered and no longer playing together professionally, they convened as friends in Montreal to make late night noisy confessions. Now, back in their home province, they are Cut Cult.

Their resume includes: producing music for other artists, like their own Dusted (Polyvinyl), and co-remixing Radiohead, MIA, etc, warping records into the viral Chipmunks on 16 Speed, playing drums in Wintersleep subbing in for Broken Social Scene and Billy Talent, as well as co-founding (finding?) the Nowadays festival in Dartmouth.