cut copy

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

-- Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 18 April 2008 00:17 (5 hours ago) Link

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

yeah "Far Away" is the best track here easily

FEEL THE LOVE

$7.99 at best buy :D :D

the opening line of 'unforgettable season'

the sample in "hearts on fire"

also

looking forward to the holy ghost! remix of "hearts on fire"
fuck yeah

hillsong united - fundie church singers

nb, non-Australians: their chart standings are 1000% bogus since for some reason they have had themselves declared as a sales outlet and can simply report whatever numbers they feel like

the sample in "hearts on fire"

is that a tiny slice of the Lyn Collins "Think" 'woo - yeh!' that the Goldworthy version has added? not sure that it really constitutes an improvement!

so where will the presets chart tomorrow? top ten?

is that a tiny slice of the Lyn Collins "Think" 'woo - yeh!' that the Goldworthy version has added? not sure that it really constitutes an improvement!

-- energy flash gordon, Friday, April 18, 2008 4:15 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

i thought this was always in the song - the c&c music factory biting has always been my fav part

yeah i'm sure that c&c music factory bit was always there (but couldnt remember what it was from)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/50047-cut-copy-so-haunted-lights-and-music-far-away-hearts-on-fire-live-on-the-interface

whenever it was put in...it's great

ah, saw 'em live so many times in the last few months I just got used to it not being there, apparently

will be amazed if presets don't sell more than this - depends what else debuted this week for chart though. I'll predict 2 if not 1.

I like this album, but it's too compressed.

are the presets really that popular over there? always figured they were like a baby cut copy, only with a more vice mag friendly stance. tho ... I guess the muscles album debuted in the top 20, so anything's possible ...

it's too compressed.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

Yes, so compressed it's hard to listen to.

Presets aren't much like Cut Copy at all- more electro/obnoxious, but in a good way. Dunno anything about the new album but the single (and video) is great.

http://i26.tinypic.com/2udyu5e.jpg
no homo, just 2 dudes sittin around jamming to Erasure

Presets sold out capital city shows in under an hour when June tour went on sale - then added second shows and did it again. My People has been haammmmered on telly shows, they played about five festivals over the summer period - they're definitely big with the kids.

Probably bring a lot of interest from the Silverchair fans too.

Is Daniel Johns on the new album, as well?! Jaysus.

Have the Presets managed to Aussie-fy their name into some sort of "Cutters"/"Juggers" thing yet? "Pressies"?

the MJs are the juggs!

Juggs not Juggers? Really? How're they doing? Album's out, right? I keep thinking they're on Modular, which they're not ... they played some sort've mid-afternoon thing sponsored by one of the big energy drink companies a few months back ... didn't really hold up to "Raised By Wolves"/etc.

I really can't imagine anything like what's been happening w/Modular happen in NZ, and we're such a small market you think it'd be easier, plus all the government funding of music, which I'm guessing Howard wasn't too big on. Sigh. I mean, Modular's core audience seem to be the bloghouse/wired types, so getting enough people to buy it to reach #1 ... free bag/t-shirt goes a long way, I guess.