Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

Ahh, Cut Copy...one of my all-time favorite acts, and one of the few bands I plan to write about that I've made it to see live...which gave me a ton more respect for them. At their very worst, they sounded as good as the album, and in general much better. That is an impressive feat for an electronic act, as so often there is so much done in post-production that it's hard for it to all come together on stage.

Anyway, onward. Nuts and bolts - Cut Copy is an electropop/synthpop act out of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. In Ghost Colours is their second (and best, in my opinion) album. I first heard about both the album and the band through a newspost on Jeph Jacques' excellent webcomic Questionable Content. Actually, I have heard about quite a bit of music through QC newsposts.

In Ghost Colours is a glorious example of the best of today's electronic music. I've been listening to it since it first came out, and I'm still not tired of it. It manages to be electropop without being depressing (which is why I classify it as both electropop and synthpop - oftentimes the line between the two is whether or not the music is dystopic or sad, but synthpop also conjures up images of bands like Freezepop, which this most decidedly is not).  Listening to the album as a whole feels like a glorious journey through a river of rainbows and snowflakes. It's mixed as gapless on the CD, and it's really worth listening to it that way, or at least as close as you can. While the singles are great (and I'll provide some video links later), the album really shines when it's listened to as a whole (which is why I'm not highlighting individual songs).


It starts out slowly (but strongly) and really goes through a whole story. Even after a year, I don't feel like I understand the album well enough to explain it, but it's amazing. If you have any love whatsoever for electronic music, you owe it to yourself to check them out.


Video links:
Hearts on Fire - Offical video here, the first single from the album. Like I said above, my love for this album really comes from the way it works as a whole, but if there were any one song that I really love on it's own, this is it. The video is great as well...I think we all have days like this sometimes.


Lights and Music - Again, official video. First single from the album. This also stands alone pretty well when it needs to, and I feel like it's a pretty good microcosm of both the album and of the band in general.


-A