cut copy

0h yeah they used to do this quite a bit and I always always missed it! It was at St Jeromes - a cafe/bar that opened about a year ago and went from totally chic and hip and secret to massively overexposed and overcrowded within about four months (this is a particularly Melbourne syndrome), so I'm not sure if they'll do any more.

I always wanted to go but somehow it never worked out.

Re: Out Hud, I haven't heard it. Generally speaking I'm like an angel of death that passes over the doors of indie-dance until someone draws my attention specifically to a particular example.

Tim, I really like the new Out Hud, it's indie dance but without the hangups (i.e. it doesn't sound like they're saying "we're a real band" at all). It sounds to me like a house-ified Tom Tom Club. I find it far more "danceable" than most DFA stuff. Check out "It's For You" and "One Life to Leave."

Will do!

I think there's still a lot of scope for those sorts of acts to venture out further beyond The Rapture's "I Need Your Love". Although maybe that's what remixes are for, I dunno.

I'm hoping that they all venture out further a la New Order in the mid-80s!

Well yeah exactly. But hey download DJ Xii's mix! It's all like that!

Spencer, I saw Brains and Cut Copy togehter in Sydney and CC was def. the highlight.

shit i forgot to go tonite.

They're playing an instore in NY later this month, Phil!

I don't think I'd ever make an indie song as bad as 'The Twilight' though.

ugh. i heard the cutcopy/wolfmother party at tribeca last nite was "really really really fun.. and trashy". that coming from my jaded hipster friends, it must have been pretty damn good. damn.

so there's talk that their last lp is DSICOVERY esque. is this true?

No. I made it up and now it's gone around the internet. Me am funneee.

well the nme is saying it now.

Is there a review? What exactly does the piece or short copy or whatever say?

"On ILM a rather handsome fellow by the name of Barima drew prescient comparisons to Daft Punk's 'Discovery'. Obviously we at the NME wouldn't know about that sort of thing but we think B is hella cute though a scag addiction wouldn't go amiss."

I've kissed a man, though...maybe? Perhaps licked a face or two, I dunno.

it's just a great big beer-fuelled haze

they were very very good tonight! melbourne indie kids in "actually dancing for once" shockah!! apart from some squally feedback bits here and there, I think they're a bit less indie-sounding now that they're a trio. (Dan only pulled the guitar on for a track here and there.)

that said, the support set from Pnau (who have a live drummer now) might've just shaded them.

new Pnau kit-type-drummer or the old bongo/percussionist brought back?

the new guy had a full kit, yes. this was no weaksauce "afro-cuban" bongo thing!

i wasn't so into pnau.
started off nice, but just got too heavy and loud and i was selling merch and people were asking for earplugs.

cut copy were fantastic.

I kinda wish Pnau would turn to the sound of their first album in its initial incarnation - the most lush phased house ever.

i totally agree, i havent enjoyed anything they've done nearly as much as sambanova since then

what about the revised edition of Sambanova or the re-revised edition of Sambanova ha ha er

(glumly regrets not buying the original Peking Duck sample-packed issue when he had the chance)

Is it true that they've got a new album coming out soon? Or is it just (another?) re-release of 'Bright Like Neon Love'?

That's the UK release of Bright Like Neon Love. Haven't heard anything about new material.

I heard the Virgin Megastore on Tottenham Ct Rd in London playing 'Saturdays' and I was super elated.

CC are playing Trash on Monday, so I have to revive the London dancing thread on ILE now.

Holy. Shit.

Gear!, jaymc, gem: I've been listening to Cut Copy recently, and... Jesus Christ you guys are SO RIGHT ON. This band -- amazing. Wonderful. Beautiful. Not enough accolades could I give for this wonderful, wonderful band. Bright Like Neon Love is an album's worth of lovely, swooshy, groove-y musical comfort food, and I am wolfing it all down. This band. My GOD. I'm really shocked to hear this album's about a year old (!) and that this band's been a going concern for three full years (!!) -- in a fair and just world this would be the very beginning of this band's surge in popularity, to the point where they will sell out arenas in a couple of years.

Damn. Cut Copy are GOOD.

: D

it's just one guy, I think, not a band! that's what I've heard, I don't know much about 'em/'im

why is the french house sound getting so big with indie kids? so sick of the endless following, when do we get electrohouse album acts that suck, 2009???

they're good songs ronan

nothing on the cut copy album (or the mylo album) or any other indie french house record is in the same league as the second wave french house it is not just ripping off but absolutely gutting, ie archigram, braxe, together etc.

fact. I am fairly convinced if I actually made a cd-r for the indie kids I know who are all about mylo they would like it more, this isn't one of these "x is ripping off y" things where x is actually far poppier and more accessible, it's just crappily produced versions of the y, in this instance.

zdar makes the cut copy record tolerable, I'm fairly sure the few good tunes on it wouldn't exist without him but even still, the alan braxe retrospective thing is ten times better, but presumably vocals and whining a good album make.

you don't even have to make a cd-r. just put together a list or whatever for downloading purposes.

(note: i don't doubt what you say, i just wanna hear what you come up with.)

alan braxe-love lost
bangalter/falcon-together
mateo-fat phaze
we in music-now that the love has gone (les rythmes digitales mix)
shakedown-at night (alan braxe remix) or the original
the paradise-in love with you
archigram-carnival (or doggystyle)
lacquer-behind
linus loves-the terrace
bangalter/falcon-together

even the assertions upthread that Cut Copy are superior to Phoenix just seem absurd, how can they be superior at doing the same thing about 5 years later on anything other than a really minor personal level?

am i the only one that finds bright like neon love colossally overrated? the guy can't sing!

i tried to listen to this on the airplane the other day and the only song i made it through completely was "that was just a dream", which was admittedly great. everything else sounded like poorly-constructed french house, which was weird because i didn't think french house could be bad.

i don't hear french house in this at all

Ronan, have you heard "Glittering Clouds?" It's like The Avalanches doing French house. Why can't we love both???

Here flows the Hatorade!

I am still in love with this album after almost a year. There are some great dancing moments, but I find the running love-and-loss motif very moving. Plus, his use of pop song forms gives him an extra edge when his ability to stand alone is considered. You can hum along and dance and sometimes that's all you need. BLNL is like swimming in a seascape made entirely out of light, love and imagination, spinning around like a ballroom dancer one minute, floating pensively the next. A twinkle in your step, half a tear in your eye, and brighter than you were a moment ago.

Also, Spencer's absolutely right. Fact is, even if BLNL was only half an album, I Thought Of Numbers is one of the best mini-LPs this decade has seen fit to throw at us and the likes of 'Glittering Clouds', 'Drop The Bomb' and 'The Light Brigade' remix hold up to that list upthread, partially by working more effectively as pop tunes (as opposed to unending dancefloor grooves).

'Live At Dominoes' and 'A Different Feeling' IS The Avalanches doing French House though!

I should listen to BLNL in full again - can only remember 'Saturday', 'Future' and 'That Was Just A Dream' - I like all these quite a lot.

Need to hear 'I Thought Of Numbers' obv. (Glittering Clouds aside)

I'll swap you for the (extended) USA album.

The Avs' approach to f/h is more swirling and melodically bombastic, whereas CC liked more synths, glitches and whirls and 80's electro percussion (comparitively).

I bought BLNL (second hand, cheap) at the weekend. Just one big shrug from me after first listen, but I'll give it another go.

I need that Braxe retrospective thing that Ronan mentioned.

I am not sure how anyone could not hear French House on Bright Like Neon Love but I suppose it's a matter of opinion.

My favorite bit on the album is the phone tone melody after "When I'm lookin' for you, I call your number but I can't get through."

Playing at the Barfly in London tonight. Anyone know if it's sold out already?

I didn't know it was on, though I don't think I'm up for it right now (when they played on Monday, I was looking to break in my Trash cherry).

They were fantastic live last night at the Echo in LA. Good to see firstworldman too!