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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