cut copy

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'