Cut Copy
Posted by: Niels Guénec on: September 17, 2008
In Ghost Colours, 2008
Among all these modern tendencies it’s time to loosen up and turn back time. The soft sound of the 80’s music is back reinkarnated in three australian fellows. Frontman Dan Whitford started off in 2001 as a solo artist before gathering the rest of the band in 2003. The band is Cut Copy.
The band slowly won peoples attention by touring with major international bands like Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand and lately Daft Punk. However, the process to bulid an international name took time. Just recently Cut Copy got their name into European magazines, blogs etc. When the british music press discovered Cut Copy as a potential band their first album was about 2 ½ year old. No companied had yet been interested in releasing it in the UK. What a shame (I guess mainstream and hype does bring along some good things). The new release is not to be mistaken of. It’s brilliant.
‘In Ghost Colours’ is dominated of guitar figures and synthesizers creating this delicate atmosphere of the 80’s. Cut Copy themselves are more inspired by the 70’s music like Beach Boys which is easely to hear in their sonorous choir constructions. However, the dancability, the pop melodies and synth love makes Cut Copy appear like a 80-loving band, but also a band searching for new directions, scouting for experiments, looking forward into the future.
Facts:
- Formed in 2001 by Dan Whitford. In 2003 fully assembled.
- First album, ‘Bright Neon Love’, released in Australia in 2004. Recorded in Dan’s bedroom.
- Released at Modular Records (Wolfmother, The Avalanches, The Presets (AU)).
- Second album, ‘In Ghost Colours’, released March this year.
- Now touring for third year in a row.
- Producer: Tim Goldsworthy (The Rapture, Hercules And Love Affair)
