cut copy

His stuff doesn't sound Avalanche-y at all to me.

The 'Numbers' EP was released on 2 10 inches in the UK on XL's Rex Records (once one of my fave labels), with a couple extra tracks (in place of 'Drop The Bomb' and 'Endlessly' - I've never heard the latter, but 'Drop' is great, just listened to it in fact). It is one of the most listened to releases in my life - fact. I haven't tired of the promo CD in 3 years (kinda suprised Tim F didn't like it). And don't get me started about his Noonday Underground remix...

just testing.

Really nice poppy album, with an interesting production twist. Apparently the singer was getting fed up with the schmindie sound of the album and sent the unmixed recording over to one-half of Cassius who remixed all the tunes with a kind of glitchy, electro, filter-disco feel.

I've been meaning to pick up the new album but haven't gotten around to it yet - one always feels a certain amount of complacency over local albums that will be easily found at low prices within six months.

the dj set's pretty ace too, sounds a lot like a club i go to a little too often here in sydney.

has anyone heard the remixes that !!! and chromeo have done of future?

wasn't too impressed with either actually... have u heard the chromeo album? i think cut copy might be bringing 'em out on tour here.

(picked up new buffalo's about last night ep at the same time - gorgeous packaging on both from modular. what else do they do, & is it all as gorgeously aussie post-avalanches pop as these two releases?)

http://members.aol.com/DragonCounty/graphics/fineartus.jpg

http://www.australienbilder.de/grafik/cd-cover/living3.jpg

http://umbrellamusic.com/images/large/rev_evandando.jpg

http://www.modularpeople.com/03/wolfmother/cd.jpg

http://www.novoselic.com/adrift/cover.jpg

http://www.hmv.com.au/product_images/646174.jpg

that Wolfmother EP is joining with the other images to illustrate "what else [Modular] do, & [that it's] all as gorgeously aussie post-avalanches pop as these two releases"! I haven't heard the whole thing, but I've got the Woman promo, and it confirmed what I thought when I saw them play a few months back: this is much more fun than it ought to be but oh my goodness I can't imagine it translating to record and convincing radio-listening kids across the globe.

Lino have disappeared, yes - one of them died, and Andrew Lancaster is in the Polaroids now.

I'd love to hear that Lino remix, any good? The VHS or Beta one might be easier to seek or acquire, seeing as it's new.

saw 'em live a few weeks back @ ding dong in Mel. Good, but I couldn't believe they weren't in catsuits a la the Darkness, I couldn't take them seriously. Some people were taking them very, very seriously.

I love this.

Barima thanks for the info on the Numbers ep.

very, very little from what I can see.

I find this statement really funny because it's hard to imagine such an extreme TS opinion between these two rather similarly pleasantly poppy groups!

Does anyone know if Kitsune might pick the album up? I know they put out Future as a single from the Midnight comp.

i've heard though that things may be tentatively starting to roll in the UK now..... would love to think so.

I love this.

Last week I recorded the Future and Saturdays 12"s to laptop so I can listen to them at work! THE WAR CONTINUES.

particularly annoying as I listed everything I already have

might go and see them in a pub on NYE

They're playing at the Hopetoun with the Presets on NYE, right?

Thanks everybody.

I'm sure that if can just stroll into a record store in London and pick up a copy off the shelf, then somebody - Beggars Banquet maybe? - must have signed it up and are preparing to push it with a 'proper' release sometime in the new year?

'Saturdays' is out March 14 in the UK, and I'll make a far bigger effort to chart that than Annie.

http://homepage.mac.com/mcutt/cutcopy.html

This is how I'm going to lose all my ILM friends - because they can't read:

indie-looking boy

Not that there's much difference between the two in most people's eyes. You look indie = you are indie = cut copy are indie.

Yeah, there's a novelty!

PS. You = indie.

Tim, have you been to Brains? They canceled the L.A. one a while ago, and I'm very jealous.

??? I don't understand.

I always wanted to go but somehow it never worked out.

Re: Out Hud, I haven't heard it. Generally speaking I'm like an angel of death that passes over the doors of indie-dance until someone draws my attention specifically to a particular example.

I think there's still a lot of scope for those sorts of acts to venture out further beyond The Rapture's "I Need Your Love". Although maybe that's what remixes are for, I dunno.

that said, the support set from Pnau (who have a live drummer now) might've just shaded them.

cut copy were fantastic.

(glumly regrets not buying the original Peking Duck sample-packed issue when he had the chance)

CC are playing Trash on Monday, so I have to revive the London dancing thread on ILE now.

Gear!, jaymc, gem: I've been listening to Cut Copy recently, and... Jesus Christ you guys are SO RIGHT ON. This band -- amazing. Wonderful. Beautiful. Not enough accolades could I give for this wonderful, wonderful band. Bright Like Neon Love is an album's worth of lovely, swooshy, groove-y musical comfort food, and I am wolfing it all down. This band. My GOD. I'm really shocked to hear this album's about a year old (!) and that this band's been a going concern for three full years (!!) -- in a fair and just world this would be the very beginning of this band's surge in popularity, to the point where they will sell out arenas in a couple of years.

Damn. Cut Copy are GOOD.

fact. I am fairly convinced if I actually made a cd-r for the indie kids I know who are all about mylo they would like it more, this isn't one of these "x is ripping off y" things where x is actually far poppier and more accessible, it's just crappily produced versions of the y, in this instance.

zdar makes the cut copy record tolerable, I'm fairly sure the few good tunes on it wouldn't exist without him but even still, the alan braxe retrospective thing is ten times better, but presumably vocals and whining a good album make.

(note: i don't doubt what you say, i just wanna hear what you come up with.)

even the assertions upthread that Cut Copy are superior to Phoenix just seem absurd, how can they be superior at doing the same thing about 5 years later on anything other than a really minor personal level?

I am still in love with this album after almost a year. There are some great dancing moments, but I find the running love-and-loss motif very moving. Plus, his use of pop song forms gives him an extra edge when his ability to stand alone is considered. You can hum along and dance and sometimes that's all you need. BLNL is like swimming in a seascape made entirely out of light, love and imagination, spinning around like a ballroom dancer one minute, floating pensively the next. A twinkle in your step, half a tear in your eye, and brighter than you were a moment ago.

Also, Spencer's absolutely right. Fact is, even if BLNL was only half an album, I Thought Of Numbers is one of the best mini-LPs this decade has seen fit to throw at us and the likes of 'Glittering Clouds', 'Drop The Bomb' and 'The Light Brigade' remix hold up to that list upthread, partially by working more effectively as pop tunes (as opposed to unending dancefloor grooves).

I should listen to BLNL in full again - can only remember 'Saturday', 'Future' and 'That Was Just A Dream' - I like all these quite a lot.

Need to hear 'I Thought Of Numbers' obv. (Glittering Clouds aside)

The Avs' approach to f/h is more swirling and melodically bombastic, whereas CC liked more synths, glitches and whirls and 80's electro percussion (comparitively).

I need that Braxe retrospective thing that Ronan mentioned.

The cover is awful, though

I also bought Bright Like Neon Love (second hand, cheap) about a year ago and thought it was pleasant and ok.
The new ones though (hearts on fire/so haunted/lights & music) are wonderful, and i saw them live last night, and they were really great!
My bf was reminded of Lo-Fi Fnk, there was lots of dancing and clapping ...
Set was quite short though.

Anyone listening to the new one? They're streaming it on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/cutcopy

annoying fans that always somehow turned me off
not too foul though

Mixtape thing they did recently was good.

heard them at rhapsody sxsw party. was working outside of the venue at the time, but it was decent.

the cut copy record has been criminally slept on i think

^^^^^^^^^^big OTM

first record, i mean

That's the one with Time Stands Still, isn't it? Yeah, it's good.

But since I grew up in the 80s, I have an inexhaustible thirst for 80s pastiche and homages, which is a large part of Cut Copy's first disc.

"So Haunted" is quite good.

It's a bit of a slog for me getting to the chorus of So Haunted. The chorus is quite good, tho (as are the keyboards at the end of the song). Hearts On Fire is -- to me -- the better track (not surprisingly, it sounds more like the debut). Surprisingly, that sax at the end of the song is a nice touch, too.

This new one is a little overlong by 3 or maybe 4 songs, but when everything clicks its really pretty good.

whoa, "Far Away."

i like all the gauzy MBV-type sounds on this. you can overdo that stuff really easily - hi dere, 'nu-gaze' genre - but there's enough of a backbone for it to work.

have a mic: cut copy - 'so cosmic'

that synth breakdown on "Far Away" is excellent. I think I really like this album, a lot!

"Far Away" is probably my favorite track on the album at this point. wau

yea either that or "Hearts on Fire" for me....I'm not crazy about "Lights and Music" which is apparently the new single, but am excited for the remixes (are there any???)

also, is that mix any good? I'm tempted to check it out

"Lights and Music" sounds like New Young Pony Club, but I'm totally OK with that.

am excited for the remixes (are there any???)

the boys noize one is sublime

wow, never would have imagined someone would describe boys noize as sublime

it totally is!!

Album of the year so far for me.

i like this but not nuts about lights and music, which is kinda boring?

It's the single?

xpost. YES

The rest of the album is better.

He kind of goes in and out of his australian accent which is annoying, but i guess I'm looking for that.

I've a terrible rip, but what I've heard is just gorgeous. If the singer really says "I get so horny that I fall in your dreams tonight" in "So Haunted," it's my lyric of the year.

It's all over slsk now in 256

lights and music REALLY reminds me of rotund-era severed heads

(and that's a good thing)

I've a terrible rip, but what I've heard is just gorgeous. If the singer really says "I get so horny that I fall in your dreams tonight" in "So Haunted," it's my lyric of the year.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 11:13 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

he's probably saying "i get so haunted"

ugh

i thought it was a reference to 2 live crew's 'me so haunted'

out there on the ice again

the b&w cover/colour overlay slipcase is gorgeous designwise, but I've only taken the thing out three times and it's already worn a huge groove in the front of the digipak

If the singer really says "I get so horny that I fall in your dreams tonight" in "So Haunted," it's my lyric of the year.

at their show last night I couldn't not hear him singing this :(

really stoked for new album to come out AND to see them live soon

OH SHIT IT'S OUT!

or maybe not until 4/8?

Out 04.08.08.

i swear it said march 22 on their myspace

Release dates shift around a lot these days, I think.

Mebbes that was Australia release date. Coz I've seen billboards saying "out now".

it was for the online store limited signed copy bullshit

bullshit on bullshit, it's been out for a couple of weeks and debuted at #1 on this week's charts.

http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1A50

http://www.messandnoise.com/images/3000097/640x190-c.jpeg

Jack Johnson !!!!!!!

<3<3

am extremely impressed at the #1 debut

They've advertised it heavily.

And so they should have, it's great.

modular's marketing weight is considerable. not to put down his very entertaining record but it's tremendous marketing clout that put muscles into the top 20

everyone wanted the free bag

i didn't know there was a free bag :( does anyone want to sell theirs?

can't download a tote bag!

I'd expect the Presets album to do at least as well as this when it comes out

they pulled the bag stunt last time around though

it was heartening to see as many modular bands in the aussie dance top 20 charts as ministry of sound

maybe they'll move onto other types of luggage for the new presets record.

i dled this cuz i love hearts on fire but alot of it sounds really mainstream & boring

it sounds like shit you would hear on the hills or something

basically needs more human league/new order and less sounding like the killers

wtf 'mainstream' you're hardly some cheerleader for indie

(i have not heard the whole record)

im a cheerleader for cut copy joints that sound more like synthpop and less like 3 doors down

ok

ok it gets better i like far away + so haunted

Far Away is so good

it was heartening to see as many modular bands in the aussie dance top 20 charts as ministry of sound

one of the MOS ones is a local act on a sub-dist imprint too

Just hearing this today and man hearts on fire and strangers in the wind are fucking great.

the album's growing on me (agree a touch overlong) - i hated lights + music when i first heard it (and still dislike the chorus), but it sounds better in the context of the album. wtf at 3 doors down comparisons?

The chorus of So Haunted reminds me of ELO. In a good way.

seriously loving this.... far away sounds like erasure

only complaint is dudes voice on some of the cuts production is A+

Cut Copy: loved by both Ethan and Dee the Lurker.

dude i love lots of dee the lurker shit... i own a kajagoogoo LP

wow @ album chart

dropped to 9 this week, still ahead of debuts by REM and Duffy. (Panic? At The Disco took over the 'barely holding Jack Johnson off the top slot' role tho)

i just noticed the sax break in hearts on fire! so much love.

saw the Presets album instore today - they have either done another bag or a t-shirt! $20 for the CD alone, $22 shrinkwrapped with some kind of folded black material with white printing on't.

in other news, The Juan McLean as support on the C/C tour in June! SIDESHOWS PLZ

i swear to god i hadn't seen this thread before today. lots of mind melds.

this album is incredible

seriously loving this.... far away sounds like erasure

lol ethan we gotta hang out sometime

no homo, just 2 dudes sittin around jamming to Erasure

trx 10 and 12 were my favorite on this album I think

I love the dance-rock groove to this disc. Among dance-rock acts, Cut Copy's lush, polished, poppy sounds are so preferable to, say, that indie-dance genre that House Of Jealous Lovers spawned (a genre full of screamy, twitchy songs I couldn't stand (just not for my ears, I guess)).

down to #13 in the aussie charts this week (ha - aussies, who the hell are gyroscope/slim dusty family/faker/hillsong united? can't believe nick & his caves are doing better in the nz charts that over the ditch, &c)

looking forward to the holy ghost! remix of "hearts on fire", hoping against hope that they'll come to nz when they've got the juan maclean in tow.

gyroscope - some rock bullshit
slim dusty family - actually is the deceased country legend's family, not some hipster band
faker - some rock bullshit
hillsong united - fundie church singers

none to my knowledge have offered free bags with purchase

is aussie rock bullshit still stuck in the long cometary trail of post-grunge, or have jet/wolfmother er "raised the stakes"?

(kiwi rock bullshit currently = atlas, who discovered the terrifying midpoint between coldplay and nickelback)

more like "long corny-tary trail of grunge"!! (ie: unfortunately yes it is.)

this album is incredible

-- Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 18 April 2008 00:17 (5 hours ago) Link

thinking baout erasure

anyway this album! biggest strength is def the ability to pull from influences without sounding reheated, also to pull from diff genres without sounding "experimental" in a bad way. i mean they have a song that sounds like broken social scene and one that sounds like simian mobile disco yet they both sound distinctly 'cut copy'. i just want to lay outside all day and listen to this

also want to live in this album cover

I live in the breakdown on "Far Away" get on my level

yeah "Far Away" is the best track here easily

FEEL THE LOVE

$7.99 at best buy :D :D

the opening line of 'unforgettable season'

the sample in "hearts on fire"

also

looking forward to the holy ghost! remix of "hearts on fire"
fuck yeah

hillsong united - fundie church singers

nb, non-Australians: their chart standings are 1000% bogus since for some reason they have had themselves declared as a sales outlet and can simply report whatever numbers they feel like

the sample in "hearts on fire"

is that a tiny slice of the Lyn Collins "Think" 'woo - yeh!' that the Goldworthy version has added? not sure that it really constitutes an improvement!

so where will the presets chart tomorrow? top ten?

is that a tiny slice of the Lyn Collins "Think" 'woo - yeh!' that the Goldworthy version has added? not sure that it really constitutes an improvement!

-- energy flash gordon, Friday, April 18, 2008 4:15 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

i thought this was always in the song - the c&c music factory biting has always been my fav part

yeah i'm sure that c&c music factory bit was always there (but couldnt remember what it was from)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/50047-cut-copy-so-haunted-lights-and-music-far-away-hearts-on-fire-live-on-the-interface

whenever it was put in...it's great

ah, saw 'em live so many times in the last few months I just got used to it not being there, apparently

will be amazed if presets don't sell more than this - depends what else debuted this week for chart though. I'll predict 2 if not 1.

I like this album, but it's too compressed.

are the presets really that popular over there? always figured they were like a baby cut copy, only with a more vice mag friendly stance. tho ... I guess the muscles album debuted in the top 20, so anything's possible ...

it's too compressed.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

Yes, so compressed it's hard to listen to.

Presets aren't much like Cut Copy at all- more electro/obnoxious, but in a good way. Dunno anything about the new album but the single (and video) is great.

http://i26.tinypic.com/2udyu5e.jpg
no homo, just 2 dudes sittin around jamming to Erasure

Presets sold out capital city shows in under an hour when June tour went on sale - then added second shows and did it again. My People has been haammmmered on telly shows, they played about five festivals over the summer period - they're definitely big with the kids.

Probably bring a lot of interest from the Silverchair fans too.

Is Daniel Johns on the new album, as well?! Jaysus.

Have the Presets managed to Aussie-fy their name into some sort of "Cutters"/"Juggers" thing yet? "Pressies"?

the MJs are the juggs!

Juggs not Juggers? Really? How're they doing? Album's out, right? I keep thinking they're on Modular, which they're not ... they played some sort've mid-afternoon thing sponsored by one of the big energy drink companies a few months back ... didn't really hold up to "Raised By Wolves"/etc.

I really can't imagine anything like what's been happening w/Modular happen in NZ, and we're such a small market you think it'd be easier, plus all the government funding of music, which I'm guessing Howard wasn't too big on. Sigh. I mean, Modular's core audience seem to be the bloghouse/wired types, so getting enough people to buy it to reach #1 ... free bag/t-shirt goes a long way, I guess.

Juggernorks!

Johns was on most of the first EP, dunno if he's on the new album, but J Hamilton has been hired gun on 'chair shit, co-wrote their big hit last year, both Presets were the backing band for Dissociatives etc etc.

Juggers did v well last year, Muscles-level sales and gigs without the Modular/Universal marketing behind 'em. have definitely gone more Big Rock than the first EP.

presets debut at #1 on the aus lp charts, cut copy back into the top 10

Jesus fucking christ. I for one welcome our new indieclash overlords etc etc etc ... feel free to post links to any interesting Aussie press articles on this. Modular, I take my hat off.
"My People" = #24 in the singles chart, highest position #19, thirteen weeks on the charts. What's Modular's highest-charting single? Reckon they'll get into the top ten with either of these releases, or is there not the radio structure to manage it? Are the Aussie charts airplay, sales, or a combination?

for some reason i think their highest charting single might be a wolfmother one (joker and the thief went to #8)

i always was under the impression that the aria top 50 was just sales, k1t might know more about this? i notice that on the aria website there's both a chart and a "physical" chart, whatever the difference happens to be..

Anyone know how high Since I Left You climbed the charts? Wikipedia tells me "Frontier Psychiatrist" reached the lofty heights of #48 ...
Totally forgot about Rofflemother, heh. Oh, ESOJ - I interviewed Tim from Cut Copy a while back, and he said they were listening to one of Severed Heads' albums while recording - can't remember which one it was, but ... good call wrt/"Lights & Music".

heh, nice!

re: avalanches, i can't easily find any stats on it but i don't think it cracked the top 20 - k!t??

coulda sworn 'since i left you' went top 20, albeit pretty briefly. i got my copy off the chart wall at sanity back when they used to sell CDs, lol.

ARIA chart is just sales, both physical and download folded together these days.

Avalanches didn't do too badly, but I think most of its sales (was #51 for year of 2001) were slow and steady rather than ever having a big peak. Modular's best-selling album is almost certainly still The Living End! Cigarettes Will Kill You could have been a top ten, holding-on-for-months single but they only pressed about 500 copies (<- complete guess - maybe 1 or 2k though) and didn't have it in shops either when it was getting airplay or got voted best song of the year on the national yoof network.

i had no idea TLE were a modular band. there's something kind of heartwarming that one of stav's ventures is so successful these days after all those years of almost but not quite

operative word "were"! I think they bailed before the singles campaign for that album was even finished - went to parent/distributor EMI.

I don't think Stav has any silent stake in Modular - it's 49% Universal and 51% Pav's sister, or something like that.

i said stav when i meant pav, but either way i didn't realise he wasn't involved anymore

oh he's totally still involved, I just seem to recall there's a tiny financial separation, presumably due to hem hem historical reasons.

ha ha:

former ILX0r glennyg2003, MODULAR PEOPLE

Album Of The Year: Bumblebeez - Prince Umberto & The Sister Of Ill
Film Of The Year: The Darjeeling Limited
DVD Of The Year: Sigur Ros - Heima
Gig/Event Of The Year: Cut Copy @ The Metro
2007 Highlights: Splendour In The Grass
2008 Predictions: The Presets, Van She, & Cut Copy records will be HUGE!

i'm pretty interested in hearing the van she album

this album is good but yea the compression is HARSH

saw it for sale in a petrol station last night (!) - they've replaced the awesome b&w digipak/transparent colour slipcase with a standard colour digipak. must have blown through entire pressing without a gap in stock, yet another impressive achievement in the marketing.

todd edwards-style part of "heart on fire" is really nice
"lights and magic" or whatever is nice

the rest has too many awful sounding pro-tools guitars and not enough good hooks

i could tolerate those guitars on "neon love" because the riffs/songs were so hot..

pro-tools guitars

oh lord

What does that mean exactly? Like, guitar pod presets or something?

guitar cables plugged directly into someone's MBox

and they sound like you're making nirvana songs with Beamz

basically needs more human league/new order and less sounding like the killers

im a cheerleader for cut copy joints that sound more like synthpop and less like 3 doors down

^^^truth

guitar cables plugged directly into someone's MBox

this is the stuff of nightmares tho

We talked to Cut Copy a bit before the record came out. Not meaning to advertise but I still think it's one of the best around.

http://popturemagazine.com/node/53

Album's great. One thing though, which I'm surprised no-one here has mentioned - the first two songs sound incredibly similar to one another. Delete one of them (probably Feel The Love) and the album overall improves massively.

they were pretty great last night altho definitely could have played for longer (i think they were only on for abt an hour?). i enjoyed lights + music a lot more live than i do on record

I'd expect the Presets album to do at least as well as this when it comes out

-- energy flash gordon, Thursday, 3 April 2008 13:20 (3 weeks ago)

so, yeah, apparently they sold twice what Cutters did for their #1 debut. I also expected them to hold top five for the second week, but they might have blown their wad for now with those numbers...

yeah, so, the aeroplane remix of "hearts on fire" is the HoF remix we've all been waiting for, yeah? soooo much better than the joakim rmx.

cut copy back to #13 this week, presets @ #3, beaten by mariah's debut which is in turn beaten by kasey chambers & shane nicholson? uh, who? aussies, 'splain. i'd guess ... pop-country?

confusing aussie debuts - the audreys and nick skitz. plz let the audreys be a rival band to the veronicas, etc.
did any of the modular bands have any presence at the mtv awards?

i've only just realised pnau aren't t'pau, heh.

yeah pop country, the song on the ad sounds a tiny bit like 'the chain' except dullsville

don't know the audreys, always confuse them with the killjoys (because their first ep was called audrey)

"After dropping out of university in Adelaide, the two moved to Melbourne where they played original pop songs and slowed-down versions of 1980s songs. An impromptu jam session with a bluegrass band inspired them to change direction from pop music to the folk and blues music they preferred, and the two moved back to Adelaide, where they formed The Audreys."

yikes.

nick skitz appears to be bangin' aussie cheesemerchant. collaborates w/scooter, also someone called "funky choad". yikes.

skitz has been around forever and a day, he also has an (i assume lucrative) mix cd series, 'skitzmix', which is up to about 20-something volumes!

lol, the daaaark secrets of oz-dance coming out to play in the cutters thread.

Can we please not call them the 'cutters'?

I'm with Tones on this.

Tony Toni Tones takin' over this jam.

spare us the cutters

coat, get

I think this is a good record, it's less radio-friendly than the Presets because the latter tend to pound their less good choruses into the head, so something like "My People" or whatever it's called sounds good when you hear it, and that, whereas Cut Copy's album is more insidious, creeping and subtle.

Very good, anyway!

Amazing, the love this material is getting. To me it sounds like Kylie passed on some tracks, and Cut Copy recorded them instead.

Really great show last night in LA.

really meh show last week in montreal.

no sideshows announced for the juan maclean here yet :(

bring back jergins. and glenny g.

Amazing, the love this material is getting. To me it sounds like Kylie passed on some tracks, and Cut Copy recorded them instead.

-- moley, Saturday, 3 May 2008 10:36 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

lol, gf said something like that too.

i like a lot of it, but it's inferior to the previous album both sonically and musically, and the little sub 2 minute inbetweeners are irritating

The new LP is OK, better than ...Neon Love, but only "So Haunted" has the wow factor. I didn't mind the inbetweeners: an obvious nod to Tremelo/Loveless although nowhere near as interesting.

i keep hearing 'so horny' instead of haunted.

Strangers in the Wind is my shit right now

like George Harrison meets Human League

Cut Copy described that song as Stardust meets Fleetwood Mac.

the guitars are quite 'dreams'-y, yes

so haunted is the one where they move on from "Sounding a bit like New Order" to "Sounding really like Electronic"

Why did it take so long for me to discover this excellent band? I mean, they are all I am looking for in one: Great melodic pop songs combined with a modern electronic sound. Exactly what pop music needs to get away from conservative guitar bands without sacrificing melody!

Not really sure about this - the songs are okay if trying too hard a bit. Is it just that I'm listening to shonky MP3s or is the sound really that tinny and cheap?

bit of both but a lot of the former, probably. it's a startlingly thin mastering job for a DFA record.

wtf this is dfa, you would never know from the way its put together, sounds more xenomania than anything

goldsworthy only.

yeah... ok that helps.

Sort of agree about the compression. Looks like the loudness war is coming to an end though, an increasing number of CDs say no to compression these days.

i've spent way more time listening to the presets album (but not the yipikiya rub one in the middle)

Looks like the loudness war is coming to an end though, an increasing number of CDs say no to compression these days.

where did you pick this up from geir ?
if true then i am happy.

I really like the stuff on here that is "aping" Severed Heads but am not too sure about the stuff "aping" New Order.

(I've only listened to the whole album once, though.)

moar liek "raping" new order amirite

This is growing on me more and more as the summer progresses, real summer of 2004 vibe to it I think. And possibly lots of other summers as well.

I'm very upset I missed their aborted set at PFM.

'out there on the ice' is a standout for me

http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,24099567-462,00.html

and there was i thinking that modular were breaking the rule that
record labels in 2007/2008 couldn't make hard cash

Moral: never rely on Wolfmother for financial security.

really falling in love with In Ghost Colours this summer. this album is firmly in my top 10 for this year. it's the 80's vibe that has done it for me.

This album definitely grew on me... I saw them a couple years ago in SF, best live performance I've ever seen, very energetic and great stage presence. I can't wait to see them again in October.

it's the 80's vibe that has done it for me.

Totally OTM. The ELO-vibe in some songs helps, too. It's too long, tho.

i lived in San Francisco for seven year, now i miss it everyday...

(s)

Their remix of Paris is Burning by Ladyhawke is quite good too.

Yeah, for me it's the album of the year now, this summer i fell in love with this record too. "Far Away" is my favourite perhaps, the chorus is the best Erasure refrain NOT written by Vince Clarke.

The ELO-vibe in some songs helps, too.

then get the Midnight Juggernauts album, it's even more down that particular vibe.

glorious remix of the best song on the album

http://www.circlebar.org/hipster17/Far%20Away%20%28Hercules%20and%20Love%20Affair%20Remix%29.mp3

"far away" hercules + love affair rmx

i agree, Far Away is my fav. on the album. not sure about this remix yet, thanks for posting it!

Between In Ghost Colours and the Midnight Juggernauts album, I'm really worrying about where my musical tastes seem to be going these days.

Why was I so late to the party on this one?

Fockin great band. My fav is Unforgettable season.

Why would you be worried?

It's a lot of disco for a dirty dronerock girl to be listening to. ;-)

Dirty Dronerock tends to be disco hiding under piles of feedback!

No it's not! Most dronerock is about the furthest thing you can get from disco! Which is a big problem I have with dronerock.

But it's OK. Cut Copy are indie boys that like disco, yeah? It's like New Order or something. Yeah, I can blame New Order for this recent dance music invasion of my record collection.

Upthread I said something along the lines of "I like the songs where they're aping Severed Heads more than the songs where they're aping New Order" re: In Ghost Colours so I do think New Order is exactly the right comparison point to start from.

Also you're right, dirty dronerock tends to be trance hiding under piles of feedback.

I wish it were trance hiding under piles of feedback! Too much of the time it's boring, ultra-conventional and staid NME/Carling Rawk hiding under black leather jackets and JAMC shades.

I live in the breakdown on "Far Away" get on my level

all-time summer album imo

This seems to be one of those albums that I get out at this time of year, just when I've given up hope that it will ever be not-Winter again.

In South London, it is cold and wet and horrible and I fear I may never see the sun again. It Australia, it's summer and Cut Copy are having a big party. I can be invited just by putting this on my iPod.

Are they/he ever going to do anything else? It has been a while since the last one. The advance bobbins from the Midnight Juggernauts album sounded a bit disappointing so I'm relying on this lot to bring the sunshine back.

they are playing @ lollapalooza, i see. when, though will there be a new lp?

they've been working on thangs in a warehouse in the melbourne burbs. the last one did take four years, though!

that must be them next door working on the organ sounds

i love me some Cut Copy. i finally bought Neon Love but don't love it like their last great album. can't wait for some new stuff by these guys.

i wish they still held their series of INDIE RAVEZ

their very first demo tape was in an 80s exhibition i saw in sydders recently

New song up: http://disconaivete.tumblr.com/post/1651055341/take-me-over

Sounds like they've been listening to a lot of Tango in the Night.

this kinda rules

have they ditched that horrible faux-beatles sound?

really not trying to be snide, but that last teaser single was awkward, uncharacteristic and terrible.

I hope so re: the faux-beatles thing.

I can't tell if I like this song on its own merits or because I love "Everywhere" so much.

man if it sounds like tango in the night i am in

doesn't sound like it plays to the band's strengths, but i do like tango in the night, so . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

have they ditched that horrible faux-beatles sound?

really not trying to be snide, but that last teaser single was awkward, uncharacteristic and terrible.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, November 22, 2010 2:48 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Well, "Take Me Over" sounds nothing like that other shitty song, so I hope so.

I like this much more than that song, too.

I have no recollection of what that "teaser" single sounded like. I think I only listened to it half the way through once.

I . . . listened to it half the way through once

you poor soul.

run to church.

Come anticipate Cut Copy's 2011 album

Here's the thread about that terrible song.

I've listened to this three times in a row. I approve.

There's clips of their new stuff on this making of video and it all sounds like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heyd4HJ2tpU

Shows them listening to Talking Heads and, err, Was Not Was.

Shows them listening to Talking Heads and, err, Was Not Was.

not a good sign imo

CUT COPY: STOP LISTENING TO TALKING HEADS AND WAS NOT WAS

CUT COPY: LISTEN TO MORE OF YOUR LAST ALBUM

lol

hell yeah

When people go around reviving the 1980s, they always forget 'Spy in the House of Love' for some reason.

f that if Cut Copy come out with a rip of Born Under Punches or Wheel Me Out and sort out the dreary vocals then thumbs up

This song is great, way better than the dodgy Beach Boys pastiche from earlier this year. What incredibly famous song does that bassline remind me of again?

Fleetwood Mac - "Everywhere"

It does, but that's not the one I was thinking of, something naffer.

wow this REALLY sounds like tango in the night

it really sounds like 'everywhere' specifically! in a good way

He even says "I can hear it callin'."

I don't mind the similarities, btw. I wish more people would write songs based on "Everywhere," or at least cover it like Vampire Weekend and A Sunny Day in Glasgow have done.

it becomes apparent after a minute or so that there's not really any song there

so someone just pointed out to me that the vocal sample on 'hearts on fire' is from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66jPJVS4JE

:O

it becomes apparent after a minute or so that there's not really any song there

― xanaxdu (electricsound), Monday, November 22, 2010 9:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

???

i guess what i mean is when you strip away the 'hey aren't we so proud of ourselves for biting FM' vibe the song underneath has no real depth to it

the chorus is ridiculously weak

Oh yeah, I wouldn't argue that. It's a sound song, not a hook song.

chorus is fine, not a standout one but dont rlly think thats what the song is 'about' the way it was for lights & music or hearts on fire

Need more of this Tango in the Night moment imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4PpWWun53o

i like the new song!

are you sure about the "waiting for tonight" thing... i mean i can KIND OF hear it but only if i squint my ears

ohh-oh-oh

yeah i knew that's the part but stillllll... ok fine i believe you

What part and what about `Waiting for Tonight`?

new album coming, single here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr67qC1IusQ

"Cold Water" is a song originally conceived in winter in Copenhagen, during a record cold fortnight of weather where I barely left my apartment (a time that feels strangely paralleled to now). Channeling the inhospitable conditions outside and using a few small pieces of instruments I had lying around, an idea for a song emerged. Then last year we managed to complete that idea in the studio together with the band. "Cold Water" is a song that felt significantly different from what we’d done in the past, and got us so excited that we wanted to build a group of songs around it in this new direction. And that’s what we did, also enlisting the help of Christoffer Berg (Fever Ray, The Knife, Depeche Mode) on mixing duties.

The end result was our forthcoming album titled Freeze, Melt which will be released later in the year.

Hah, just noticing I never even heard their 2017 record. This one sounds promising based on that track.

New album out today.

My copy arrived today, I really like it. A bit more downbeat than the last couple of records.

Running in the Grass is so super good. I have had it on repeat for the last hour. Overall this is a very solid album. Doesn't have the pop hits, but it's a cohesive listen. Enjoying it all, but Running In The Grass is the one i'll be playing the most.

So far this whole album sounds like the great underappreciated second side of an album that everybody gravitates to for the crowd pleasing first three tracks.

After 5 days of playing this on a loop, I’m ready to say this is my favorite album of 2020 so far.

I've only listened to it once and it kind of passed me by. I'll definitely be sticking with it though as they're one of the most reliable bands going. The last album was really underrated.

This is the first album of theirs I've mostly enjoyed since In Ghost Colours

It's an album you need to play a few times. Not many tracks leap out as the 'hits', but it's so solid and coherent. I have to start at song 1 and let it play the whole way through.

Ok yeah, you're right. I just put it on for a third listen on a walk in the sun and it sounded glorious. It felt too slight at first, but it's already starting to grip me with how it maintains that beautifully chilled out mood.

I love "Zonoscope," but this is definitely the one that's drawn me back the most to listen to again and again since that one.

Zonoscope is so great (if you take off Where I'm Going). I know a lot of people didn't rate it, but I thought Free Your Mind was great too. It's probably helped by seeing them on that tour and it being one of most fun shows I've ever been to.

I guess I should give this a listen, but this is something that has definitely changed in my listening life. Like, I don't have the time / patience / bandwidth to sit with and listen to an album 3 or 4 times that doesn't immediately grab me, to allow it to sink in any more, unless I have some real motivation to do so? (And I'm not sure what that motivation would be.)

Casual listening of bands I like, but don't really *love*, has kind of fallen by the wayside again. Which I feel is kind of a personal flaw, but also maybe that filtering process is necessary?

If you have to listen to an album by a band like Cut Copy three or four times for it to sink in then it's not doing the job properly. If they're not about the instant rush then what on earth is the point of them?

Love this. The verses of "Like Breaking Glass" kinda sound like Eno/Cale's "Spinning Away" to me

I guess it depends on how one sees the band - like, are Cut Copy just a happy, funtimes pop band for dancing to, or have they become something more introspective and deeper which requires and rewards more attention? (I guess I'm thinking of the comparison of Perfume Genius, where I *do* feel that there is something deeper to them, that I should persist in trying to reach, even if the hit is not immediate.)

If a band has changed, but one's own perception of them has not shifted, maybe more listening it required to bridge the gap. But if they've changed to something that just doesn't appeal, or one's own desires have shifted (do I already have enough introspective bands in my life, and I just want happy fun party music now?) then it's not worth it. I'm trying to work out what the difference is, but I guess it's not important.

I'm listening to Like Breaking Glass right now, and there are lots of the interesting synth sounds and wurbles that I used to really love about their earlier pop singles? (But the tempo is quite slow and the melodies aren't as sugary, so.)

I think if on first listen you don't like it, you won't like it. But if on first listen you do like it, on listen 3 you might light it a lot more. I don't know if there is anything newly deep about the group, but there is an air of melancholy to this one in particular that sounds different and perhaps demands a bit more commitment. Relatively speaking, of course. I was listening last night and for some reason kept thinking of Portishead's Third. This is not that, but it does present new facets of a group that had a pretty definable sound.

I guess i'm not really the kind of person who seeks out and values immediate sugary pop singles. Cut Copy already has a long list of pop hits you can shout along to, so i'm not that interested in them producing more of the same. I'm sure if they did put some of those kinds of songs on this album, people would be complaining about them treading water or just repeating themselves. Anyway, lots of music to listen to in the world, so convincing someone to like something you like is a waste of time.

This sounded very immediate to me on first listen, it's very pretty and eager to please, it's not a collection of festival bangers but it doesn't strike me as something that's especially difficult to get into at all. Probably enjoyed it more than any of their records since In Ghost Colours.

I have so much I want to listen to, but I keep coming back to this album.

First headphone listen today revealed to me that this album is at the very least impeccably mixed (by the guy who mixes the Knife and Fever Ray). Close listening to a song like "Stop, Horizon" was pretty revelatory, and also just pretty.

yeah i love this, at least after my first listen. wasn't too hot on their last album. Free Your Mind is probably my favorite of theirs. can't wait to revisit this one soon.

the song that sounds like pacman at the start is fuckin baller

New single (sounding quite Parcels like)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zqN0TXUqqs

Don't know Parcels, but this is nice. I like how Cut Copy have leaned into subtlety.

There's a cool b-side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGSNdeQ1HmM

I noticed the band is playing seated shows this tour, that does not bode well for ticket sales. Neither does the lack of action on this thread, lol, or the general lack of buzz, or reviews of the new album for that matter.

i listened to the new album once and it was very forgettable

i considered going to see them live earlier this year anyway but i had something else on unfortunately

Yeah, has its moments but nothing special. Even so, the group is really good live. Also noticed they're offering discounts for people who buy tickets as a group of four.

Didn't they also release a greatest hits album recently? I think they would be a blast live but haven't seen them.

they are a sold live act for sure

i saw them live like a decade ago and they were decent but the bass was way too loud

current tour they're playing most of in ghost colours so it probably would have been better

Playing a non-seated venue here. Unless there are four of you and you pay $5 extra each for a table.