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that Wolfmother EP is joining with the other images to illustrate "what else [Modular] do, & [that it's] all as gorgeously aussie post-avalanches pop as these two releases"! I haven't heard the whole thing, but I've got the Woman promo, and it confirmed what I thought when I saw them play a few months back: this is much more fun than it ought to be but oh my goodness I can't imagine it translating to record and convincing radio-listening kids across the globe.

Lino have disappeared, yes - one of them died, and Andrew Lancaster is in the Polaroids now.

I'd love to hear that Lino remix, any good? The VHS or Beta one might be easier to seek or acquire, seeing as it's new.

saw 'em live a few weeks back @ ding dong in Mel. Good, but I couldn't believe they weren't in catsuits a la the Darkness, I couldn't take them seriously. Some people were taking them very, very seriously.

I love this.

Barima thanks for the info on the Numbers ep.

very, very little from what I can see.

I find this statement really funny because it's hard to imagine such an extreme TS opinion between these two rather similarly pleasantly poppy groups!

Does anyone know if Kitsune might pick the album up? I know they put out Future as a single from the Midnight comp.

i've heard though that things may be tentatively starting to roll in the UK now..... would love to think so.

I love this.

Last week I recorded the Future and Saturdays 12"s to laptop so I can listen to them at work! THE WAR CONTINUES.

particularly annoying as I listed everything I already have

might go and see them in a pub on NYE

They're playing at the Hopetoun with the Presets on NYE, right?

Thanks everybody.

I'm sure that if can just stroll into a record store in London and pick up a copy off the shelf, then somebody - Beggars Banquet maybe? - must have signed it up and are preparing to push it with a 'proper' release sometime in the new year?

After 5 days of playing this on a loop, I’m ready to say this is my favorite album of 2020 so far.

I've only listened to it once and it kind of passed me by. I'll definitely be sticking with it though as they're one of the most reliable bands going. The last album was really underrated.

This is the first album of theirs I've mostly enjoyed since In Ghost Colours

It's an album you need to play a few times. Not many tracks leap out as the 'hits', but it's so solid and coherent. I have to start at song 1 and let it play the whole way through.

Ok yeah, you're right. I just put it on for a third listen on a walk in the sun and it sounded glorious. It felt too slight at first, but it's already starting to grip me with how it maintains that beautifully chilled out mood.

I love "Zonoscope," but this is definitely the one that's drawn me back the most to listen to again and again since that one.

Zonoscope is so great (if you take off Where I'm Going). I know a lot of people didn't rate it, but I thought Free Your Mind was great too. It's probably helped by seeing them on that tour and it being one of most fun shows I've ever been to.

I guess I should give this a listen, but this is something that has definitely changed in my listening life. Like, I don't have the time / patience / bandwidth to sit with and listen to an album 3 or 4 times that doesn't immediately grab me, to allow it to sink in any more, unless I have some real motivation to do so? (And I'm not sure what that motivation would be.)

Casual listening of bands I like, but don't really *love*, has kind of fallen by the wayside again. Which I feel is kind of a personal flaw, but also maybe that filtering process is necessary?

If you have to listen to an album by a band like Cut Copy three or four times for it to sink in then it's not doing the job properly. If they're not about the instant rush then what on earth is the point of them?

Love this. The verses of "Like Breaking Glass" kinda sound like Eno/Cale's "Spinning Away" to me

I guess it depends on how one sees the band - like, are Cut Copy just a happy, funtimes pop band for dancing to, or have they become something more introspective and deeper which requires and rewards more attention? (I guess I'm thinking of the comparison of Perfume Genius, where I *do* feel that there is something deeper to them, that I should persist in trying to reach, even if the hit is not immediate.)

If a band has changed, but one's own perception of them has not shifted, maybe more listening it required to bridge the gap. But if they've changed to something that just doesn't appeal, or one's own desires have shifted (do I already have enough introspective bands in my life, and I just want happy fun party music now?) then it's not worth it. I'm trying to work out what the difference is, but I guess it's not important.

I'm listening to Like Breaking Glass right now, and there are lots of the interesting synth sounds and wurbles that I used to really love about their earlier pop singles? (But the tempo is quite slow and the melodies aren't as sugary, so.)

I think if on first listen you don't like it, you won't like it. But if on first listen you do like it, on listen 3 you might light it a lot more. I don't know if there is anything newly deep about the group, but there is an air of melancholy to this one in particular that sounds different and perhaps demands a bit more commitment. Relatively speaking, of course. I was listening last night and for some reason kept thinking of Portishead's Third. This is not that, but it does present new facets of a group that had a pretty definable sound.

I guess i'm not really the kind of person who seeks out and values immediate sugary pop singles. Cut Copy already has a long list of pop hits you can shout along to, so i'm not that interested in them producing more of the same. I'm sure if they did put some of those kinds of songs on this album, people would be complaining about them treading water or just repeating themselves. Anyway, lots of music to listen to in the world, so convincing someone to like something you like is a waste of time.

This sounded very immediate to me on first listen, it's very pretty and eager to please, it's not a collection of festival bangers but it doesn't strike me as something that's especially difficult to get into at all. Probably enjoyed it more than any of their records since In Ghost Colours.

I have so much I want to listen to, but I keep coming back to this album.

First headphone listen today revealed to me that this album is at the very least impeccably mixed (by the guy who mixes the Knife and Fever Ray). Close listening to a song like "Stop, Horizon" was pretty revelatory, and also just pretty.

yeah i love this, at least after my first listen. wasn't too hot on their last album. Free Your Mind is probably my favorite of theirs. can't wait to revisit this one soon.

the song that sounds like pacman at the start is fuckin baller

New single (sounding quite Parcels like)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zqN0TXUqqs

Don't know Parcels, but this is nice. I like how Cut Copy have leaned into subtlety.

There's a cool b-side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGSNdeQ1HmM

I noticed the band is playing seated shows this tour, that does not bode well for ticket sales. Neither does the lack of action on this thread, lol, or the general lack of buzz, or reviews of the new album for that matter.

i listened to the new album once and it was very forgettable

i considered going to see them live earlier this year anyway but i had something else on unfortunately

Yeah, has its moments but nothing special. Even so, the group is really good live. Also noticed they're offering discounts for people who buy tickets as a group of four.

Didn't they also release a greatest hits album recently? I think they would be a blast live but haven't seen them.

they are a sold live act for sure

i saw them live like a decade ago and they were decent but the bass was way too loud

current tour they're playing most of in ghost colours so it probably would have been better

Playing a non-seated venue here. Unless there are four of you and you pay $5 extra each for a table.