that said, the support set from Pnau (who have a live drummer now) might've just shaded them.
― haitch (haitch), Saturday, 23 April 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 23 April 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 24 April 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link
cut copy were fantastic.
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Sunday, 24 April 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 24 April 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
(glumly regrets not buying the original Peking Duck sample-packed issue when he had the chance)
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 25 April 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link
CC are playing Trash on Monday, so I have to revive the London dancing thread on ILE now.
― BARMS, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
(note: i don't doubt what you say, i just wanna hear what you come up with.)
― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link
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?
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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).
― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link
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)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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).
― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
I need that Braxe retrospective thing that Ronan mentioned.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
The cover is awful, though
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Idle Idle (idleidleidle), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― barnaby, Sunday, 2 March 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone listening to the new one? They're streaming it on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/cutcopy
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
annoying fans that always somehow turned me off not too foul though
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Mixtape thing they did recently was good.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
heard them at rhapsody sxsw party. was working outside of the venue at the time, but it was decent.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
the cut copy record has been criminally slept on i think
^^^^^^^^^^big OTM
― winston, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
first record, i mean
― winston, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link
That's the one with Time Stands Still, isn't it? Yeah, it's good.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"So Haunted" is quite good.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 22 March 2008 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 22 March 2008 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link