cut copy

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.

Juggernorks!

Johns was on most of the first EP, dunno if he's on the new album, but J Hamilton has been hired gun on 'chair shit, co-wrote their big hit last year, both Presets were the backing band for Dissociatives etc etc.

Juggers did v well last year, Muscles-level sales and gigs without the Modular/Universal marketing behind 'em. have definitely gone more Big Rock than the first EP.

presets debut at #1 on the aus lp charts, cut copy back into the top 10

Jesus fucking christ. I for one welcome our new indieclash overlords etc etc etc ... feel free to post links to any interesting Aussie press articles on this. Modular, I take my hat off.
"My People" = #24 in the singles chart, highest position #19, thirteen weeks on the charts. What's Modular's highest-charting single? Reckon they'll get into the top ten with either of these releases, or is there not the radio structure to manage it? Are the Aussie charts airplay, sales, or a combination?

for some reason i think their highest charting single might be a wolfmother one (joker and the thief went to #8)

i always was under the impression that the aria top 50 was just sales, k1t might know more about this? i notice that on the aria website there's both a chart and a "physical" chart, whatever the difference happens to be..

Anyone know how high Since I Left You climbed the charts? Wikipedia tells me "Frontier Psychiatrist" reached the lofty heights of #48 ...
Totally forgot about Rofflemother, heh. Oh, ESOJ - I interviewed Tim from Cut Copy a while back, and he said they were listening to one of Severed Heads' albums while recording - can't remember which one it was, but ... good call wrt/"Lights & Music".

heh, nice!

re: avalanches, i can't easily find any stats on it but i don't think it cracked the top 20 - k!t??

coulda sworn 'since i left you' went top 20, albeit pretty briefly. i got my copy off the chart wall at sanity back when they used to sell CDs, lol.

ARIA chart is just sales, both physical and download folded together these days.

Avalanches didn't do too badly, but I think most of its sales (was #51 for year of 2001) were slow and steady rather than ever having a big peak. Modular's best-selling album is almost certainly still The Living End! Cigarettes Will Kill You could have been a top ten, holding-on-for-months single but they only pressed about 500 copies (<- complete guess - maybe 1 or 2k though) and didn't have it in shops either when it was getting airplay or got voted best song of the year on the national yoof network.

i had no idea TLE were a modular band. there's something kind of heartwarming that one of stav's ventures is so successful these days after all those years of almost but not quite

operative word "were"! I think they bailed before the singles campaign for that album was even finished - went to parent/distributor EMI.

I don't think Stav has any silent stake in Modular - it's 49% Universal and 51% Pav's sister, or something like that.

i said stav when i meant pav, but either way i didn't realise he wasn't involved anymore

oh he's totally still involved, I just seem to recall there's a tiny financial separation, presumably due to hem hem historical reasons.

ha ha:

former ILX0r glennyg2003, MODULAR PEOPLE

Album Of The Year: Bumblebeez - Prince Umberto & The Sister Of Ill
Film Of The Year: The Darjeeling Limited
DVD Of The Year: Sigur Ros - Heima
Gig/Event Of The Year: Cut Copy @ The Metro
2007 Highlights: Splendour In The Grass
2008 Predictions: The Presets, Van She, & Cut Copy records will be HUGE!

i'm pretty interested in hearing the van she album

this album is good but yea the compression is HARSH

saw it for sale in a petrol station last night (!) - they've replaced the awesome b&w digipak/transparent colour slipcase with a standard colour digipak. must have blown through entire pressing without a gap in stock, yet another impressive achievement in the marketing.

todd edwards-style part of "heart on fire" is really nice
"lights and magic" or whatever is nice

the rest has too many awful sounding pro-tools guitars and not enough good hooks