With the exception of "The Little Mermaid" soundtrack and Muscles' "Guns Babes Lemonade", Cut Copy is probably the faggiest music I listen to. And the band isn't even gay.
They're hardcore 80's revivalists, their music dripping with synths and vocoderized vocals. Lead singer Dan Whitford's rhymes can be cringeworthily primitive -- "Do/You", "Mind/Time," etc. -- but his lyrics are elevated to the level of the forgivably dorky by the conviction of his delivery. He's aping mid-80s New Wave bangs-tossing affectlessness...but he MEANS it.
It's that sincerity that allows the band to get away with their rampant "New Order" allusions. Like New Order, and unlike Vice-friendly acts like Chromeo, they're actually striving for real transcendence, beauty, and release.
I feel oddly protective about them: can straight-faced, irony-deficient dance pop make it with hip listeners? In any case, I think their new album, "In Ghost Colours", has a better chance than their debut. Produced by DFA's Andy Goldsworthy, it isn't quite as relentlessly catchy as 2004's "Bright Like Neon Love," but its highs, like the Fleetwood Mac-inspired "Strangers in the Wind" and album opener "Feel the Love," might be higher.
Feel_Love.mp3{Cut Copy}
UPDATE: For whatever reason, iTunes is only charging 7 bucks for the entire 16-track album!
They're hardcore 80's revivalists, their music dripping with synths and vocoderized vocals. Lead singer Dan Whitford's rhymes can be cringeworthily primitive -- "Do/You", "Mind/Time," etc. -- but his lyrics are elevated to the level of the forgivably dorky by the conviction of his delivery. He's aping mid-80s New Wave bangs-tossing affectlessness...but he MEANS it.
It's that sincerity that allows the band to get away with their rampant "New Order" allusions. Like New Order, and unlike Vice-friendly acts like Chromeo, they're actually striving for real transcendence, beauty, and release.
I feel oddly protective about them: can straight-faced, irony-deficient dance pop make it with hip listeners? In any case, I think their new album, "In Ghost Colours", has a better chance than their debut. Produced by DFA's Andy Goldsworthy, it isn't quite as relentlessly catchy as 2004's "Bright Like Neon Love," but its highs, like the Fleetwood Mac-inspired "Strangers in the Wind" and album opener "Feel the Love," might be higher.
Feel_Love.mp3{Cut Copy}
UPDATE: For whatever reason, iTunes is only charging 7 bucks for the entire 16-track album!
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