cut copy

it was for the online store limited signed copy bullshit

bullshit on bullshit, it's been out for a couple of weeks and debuted at #1 on this week's charts.

http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1A50

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Jack Johnson !!!!!!!

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am extremely impressed at the #1 debut

They've advertised it heavily.

And so they should have, it's great.

modular's marketing weight is considerable. not to put down his very entertaining record but it's tremendous marketing clout that put muscles into the top 20

everyone wanted the free bag

i didn't know there was a free bag :( does anyone want to sell theirs?

can't download a tote bag!

I'd expect the Presets album to do at least as well as this when it comes out

they pulled the bag stunt last time around though

it was heartening to see as many modular bands in the aussie dance top 20 charts as ministry of sound

maybe they'll move onto other types of luggage for the new presets record.

i dled this cuz i love hearts on fire but alot of it sounds really mainstream & boring

it sounds like shit you would hear on the hills or something

basically needs more human league/new order and less sounding like the killers

wtf 'mainstream' you're hardly some cheerleader for indie

(i have not heard the whole record)

im a cheerleader for cut copy joints that sound more like synthpop and less like 3 doors down

ok

ok it gets better i like far away + so haunted

Far Away is so good

it was heartening to see as many modular bands in the aussie dance top 20 charts as ministry of sound

one of the MOS ones is a local act on a sub-dist imprint too

Just hearing this today and man hearts on fire and strangers in the wind are fucking great.

the album's growing on me (agree a touch overlong) - i hated lights + music when i first heard it (and still dislike the chorus), but it sounds better in the context of the album. wtf at 3 doors down comparisons?

The chorus of So Haunted reminds me of ELO. In a good way.

seriously loving this.... far away sounds like erasure

only complaint is dudes voice on some of the cuts production is A+

Cut Copy: loved by both Ethan and Dee the Lurker.

dude i love lots of dee the lurker shit... i own a kajagoogoo LP

wow @ album chart

dropped to 9 this week, still ahead of debuts by REM and Duffy. (Panic? At The Disco took over the 'barely holding Jack Johnson off the top slot' role tho)

i just noticed the sax break in hearts on fire! so much love.

saw the Presets album instore today - they have either done another bag or a t-shirt! $20 for the CD alone, $22 shrinkwrapped with some kind of folded black material with white printing on't.

in other news, The Juan McLean as support on the C/C tour in June! SIDESHOWS PLZ

i swear to god i hadn't seen this thread before today. lots of mind melds.

this album is incredible

seriously loving this.... far away sounds like erasure

lol ethan we gotta hang out sometime

no homo, just 2 dudes sittin around jamming to Erasure

trx 10 and 12 were my favorite on this album I think

I love the dance-rock groove to this disc. Among dance-rock acts, Cut Copy's lush, polished, poppy sounds are so preferable to, say, that indie-dance genre that House Of Jealous Lovers spawned (a genre full of screamy, twitchy songs I couldn't stand (just not for my ears, I guess)).

down to #13 in the aussie charts this week (ha - aussies, who the hell are gyroscope/slim dusty family/faker/hillsong united? can't believe nick & his caves are doing better in the nz charts that over the ditch, &c)

looking forward to the holy ghost! remix of "hearts on fire", hoping against hope that they'll come to nz when they've got the juan maclean in tow.

gyroscope - some rock bullshit
slim dusty family - actually is the deceased country legend's family, not some hipster band
faker - some rock bullshit
hillsong united - fundie church singers

none to my knowledge have offered free bags with purchase

is aussie rock bullshit still stuck in the long cometary trail of post-grunge, or have jet/wolfmother er "raised the stakes"?

(kiwi rock bullshit currently = atlas, who discovered the terrifying midpoint between coldplay and nickelback)

more like "long corny-tary trail of grunge"!! (ie: unfortunately yes it is.)

this album is incredible

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thinking baout erasure

anyway this album! biggest strength is def the ability to pull from influences without sounding reheated, also to pull from diff genres without sounding "experimental" in a bad way. i mean they have a song that sounds like broken social scene and one that sounds like simian mobile disco yet they both sound distinctly 'cut copy'. i just want to lay outside all day and listen to this

also want to live in this album cover

I live in the breakdown on "Far Away" get on my level