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!

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

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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.