cut copy

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

i could tolerate those guitars on "neon love" because the riffs/songs were so hot..

pro-tools guitars

oh lord

What does that mean exactly? Like, guitar pod presets or something?

guitar cables plugged directly into someone's MBox

and they sound like you're making nirvana songs with Beamz

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

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

^^^truth

guitar cables plugged directly into someone's MBox

this is the stuff of nightmares tho

We talked to Cut Copy a bit before the record came out. Not meaning to advertise but I still think it's one of the best around.

http://popturemagazine.com/node/53

Album's great. One thing though, which I'm surprised no-one here has mentioned - the first two songs sound incredibly similar to one another. Delete one of them (probably Feel The Love) and the album overall improves massively.

they were pretty great last night altho definitely could have played for longer (i think they were only on for abt an hour?). i enjoyed lights + music a lot more live than i do on record

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

-- energy flash gordon, Thursday, 3 April 2008 13:20 (3 weeks ago)

so, yeah, apparently they sold twice what Cutters did for their #1 debut. I also expected them to hold top five for the second week, but they might have blown their wad for now with those numbers...

yeah, so, the aeroplane remix of "hearts on fire" is the HoF remix we've all been waiting for, yeah? soooo much better than the joakim rmx.

cut copy back to #13 this week, presets @ #3, beaten by mariah's debut which is in turn beaten by kasey chambers & shane nicholson? uh, who? aussies, 'splain. i'd guess ... pop-country?

confusing aussie debuts - the audreys and nick skitz. plz let the audreys be a rival band to the veronicas, etc.
did any of the modular bands have any presence at the mtv awards?

i've only just realised pnau aren't t'pau, heh.

yeah pop country, the song on the ad sounds a tiny bit like 'the chain' except dullsville

don't know the audreys, always confuse them with the killjoys (because their first ep was called audrey)

"After dropping out of university in Adelaide, the two moved to Melbourne where they played original pop songs and slowed-down versions of 1980s songs. An impromptu jam session with a bluegrass band inspired them to change direction from pop music to the folk and blues music they preferred, and the two moved back to Adelaide, where they formed The Audreys."

yikes.

nick skitz appears to be bangin' aussie cheesemerchant. collaborates w/scooter, also someone called "funky choad". yikes.

skitz has been around forever and a day, he also has an (i assume lucrative) mix cd series, 'skitzmix', which is up to about 20-something volumes!

lol, the daaaark secrets of oz-dance coming out to play in the cutters thread.

Can we please not call them the 'cutters'?

I'm with Tones on this.

Tony Toni Tones takin' over this jam.

spare us the cutters

coat, get

I think this is a good record, it's less radio-friendly than the Presets because the latter tend to pound their less good choruses into the head, so something like "My People" or whatever it's called sounds good when you hear it, and that, whereas Cut Copy's album is more insidious, creeping and subtle.

Very good, anyway!

Amazing, the love this material is getting. To me it sounds like Kylie passed on some tracks, and Cut Copy recorded them instead.

Really great show last night in LA.

really meh show last week in montreal.

no sideshows announced for the juan maclean here yet :(

bring back jergins. and glenny g.

Amazing, the love this material is getting. To me it sounds like Kylie passed on some tracks, and Cut Copy recorded them instead.

-- moley, Saturday, 3 May 2008 10:36 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

lol, gf said something like that too.

i like a lot of it, but it's inferior to the previous album both sonically and musically, and the little sub 2 minute inbetweeners are irritating

The new LP is OK, better than ...Neon Love, but only "So Haunted" has the wow factor. I didn't mind the inbetweeners: an obvious nod to Tremelo/Loveless although nowhere near as interesting.

i keep hearing 'so horny' instead of haunted.

Strangers in the Wind is my shit right now

like George Harrison meets Human League

Cut Copy described that song as Stardust meets Fleetwood Mac.

the guitars are quite 'dreams'-y, yes

so haunted is the one where they move on from "Sounding a bit like New Order" to "Sounding really like Electronic"

Why did it take so long for me to discover this excellent band? I mean, they are all I am looking for in one: Great melodic pop songs combined with a modern electronic sound. Exactly what pop music needs to get away from conservative guitar bands without sacrificing melody!

Not really sure about this - the songs are okay if trying too hard a bit. Is it just that I'm listening to shonky MP3s or is the sound really that tinny and cheap?

bit of both but a lot of the former, probably. it's a startlingly thin mastering job for a DFA record.

wtf this is dfa, you would never know from the way its put together, sounds more xenomania than anything