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the new guy had a full kit, yes. this was no weaksauce "afro-cuban" bongo thing!

haitch (haitch), Sunday, 24 April 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i wasn't so into pnau.
started off nice, but just got too heavy and loud and i was selling merch and people were asking for earplugs.

cut copy were fantastic.

glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Sunday, 24 April 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I kinda wish Pnau would turn to the sound of their first album in its initial incarnation - the most lush phased house ever.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 24 April 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i totally agree, i havent enjoyed anything they've done nearly as much as sambanova since then

glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

what about the revised edition of Sambanova or the re-revised edition of Sambanova ha ha er

(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

one month passes...
Is it true that they've got a new album coming out soon? Or is it just (another?) re-release of 'Bright Like Neon Love'?

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

That's the UK release of Bright Like Neon Love. Haven't heard anything about new material.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard the Virgin Megastore on Tottenham Ct Rd in London playing 'Saturdays' and I was super elated.

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

Holy. Shit.

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

: D

Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

it's just one guy, I think, not a band! that's what I've heard, I don't know much about 'em/'im

Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

why is the french house sound getting so big with indie kids? so sick of the endless following, when do we get electrohouse album acts that suck, 2009???

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

they're good songs ronan

shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

nothing on the cut copy album (or the mylo album) or any other indie french house record is in the same league as the second wave french house it is not just ripping off but absolutely gutting, ie archigram, braxe, together etc.

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

you don't even have to make a cd-r. just put together a list or whatever for downloading purposes.

(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

alan braxe-love lost
bangalter/falcon-together
mateo-fat phaze
we in music-now that the love has gone (les rythmes digitales mix)
shakedown-at night (alan braxe remix) or the original
the paradise-in love with you
archigram-carnival (or doggystyle)
lacquer-behind
linus loves-the terrace
bangalter/falcon-together


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

am i the only one that finds bright like neon love colossally overrated? the guy can't sing!

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link

i tried to listen to this on the airplane the other day and the only song i made it through completely was "that was just a dream", which was admittedly great. everything else sounded like poorly-constructed french house, which was weird because i didn't think french house could be bad.

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't hear french house in this at all

Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronan, have you heard "Glittering Clouds?" It's like The Avalanches doing French house. Why can't we love both???

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Here flows the Hatorade!

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

'Live At Dominoes' and 'A Different Feeling' IS The Avalanches doing French House though!

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

I'll swap you for the (extended) USA album.

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 bought BLNL (second hand, cheap) at the weekend. Just one big shrug from me after first listen, but I'll give it another go.

I need that Braxe retrospective thing that Ronan mentioned.

Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I am not sure how anyone could not hear French House on Bright Like Neon Love but I suppose it's a matter of opinion.

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link

My favorite bit on the album is the phone tone melody after "When I'm lookin' for you, I call your number but I can't get through."

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Playing at the Barfly in London tonight. Anyone know if it's sold out already?

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't know it was on, though I don't think I'm up for it right now (when they played on Monday, I was looking to break in my Trash cherry).

Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...
They were fantastic live last night at the Echo in LA. Good to see firstworldman too!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get the hate at all... this album is beyond classic. Possibly my favorite from 2004. It's so dreamy... like the big vibrant lushness of french house blown up pop cinemascope style. It does seem a little behind the times (or behind the revival) but that does not detract from its quality.

The cover is awful, though

fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

i love the cover! the contrast between the shiny lipstick and the night sky.

gem (trisk), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link

haha people write funny things

Idle Idle (idleidleidle), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...
dan cut copy has his own label now, "cutters", which is mainly putting out other australian acts (midnight juggernauts for example). the logo is a pic of corey feldman!!

haitch (haitch), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

ten months pass...
New track (Hearts on Fire) now streaming on Myspace, possibly even more eighties synth-pop than before, with a nice chunky bass line.

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, and a nice Peter Hook style bass riff at the end too!

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

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

two weeks pass...

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

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

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 22 March 2008 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link

whoa, "Far Away."

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link


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