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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
I need that Braxe retrospective thing that Ronan mentioned.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
The cover is awful, though
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Idle Idle (idleidleidle), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link
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― haitch (haitch), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
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― 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
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
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'
― haitch, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
that synth breakdown on "Far Away" is excellent. I think I really like this album, a lot!
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 01:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"Far Away" is probably my favorite track on the album at this point. wau
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 06:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
"Lights and Music" sounds like New Young Pony Club, but I'm totally OK with that.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
am excited for the remixes (are there any???)
― haitch, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
the boys noize one is sublime
― jergïns, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, never would have imagined someone would describe boys noize as sublime
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
it totally is!!
― jergïns, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Album of the year so far for me.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i like this but not nuts about lights and music, which is kinda boring?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
It's the single?
― wilter, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost. YES
The rest of the album is better.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
He kind of goes in and out of his australian accent which is annoying, but i guess I'm looking for that.
― wilter, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
It's all over slsk now in 256
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
lights and music REALLY reminds me of rotund-era severed heads
― electricsound, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
(and that's a good thing)
-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 11:13 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
he's probably saying "i get so haunted"
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought it was a reference to 2 live crew's 'me so haunted'
― and what, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link