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kiyonemakibi [Edit] [Delete] 64 replies 20:22, 24 October '13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPRJVKtrCCk
https://soundcloud.com/modularpeople/cut-copy-take-me-higher
https://soundcloud.com/modularpeople/cut-copy-let-me-show-you
https://soundcloud.com/modularpeople/cut-copy-we-are-explorers

Not sure they'll ever top In Ghost Colours, but I'm looking forward to this.

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*silence*

Anyway, the whole album is streaming now:

http://pitchfork.com/news/52775-stream-cut-copys-album-free-your-mind/

kiyonemakibi | 25 Oct '13, 12:10 | X
Glad to see they have gone full Urban Cookie Collective on us.

I was a bit worried it might sound too much Screamadelica. Fortunately, it sounds like one of those 'Dance Hits 94' cassettes I grew up with.

johnwiddop | 25 Oct '13, 12:47 | X
I'm looking forward to this

I like them so much I'm going to Paris for a weekend at the end of November to see them. The London date is on a weekday (and I'm out of leave), the Paris date is on a Saturday.

(Booked a whole weekend because gig cancellations happen, so if it did I've still got a whole weekend in Paris, which is my idea of fun anyway...)

Damian | 25 Oct '13, 16:23 | X
I think this is brilliant

really seriously great. perhaps the pop album of the year (!!!) - maybe it's just up my street but goddamn this is hitting the spot

SCROTUM | 26 Oct '13, 02:30 | X
Can't wait to listen to this

Zonoscope was excellent and Sun God is one of those tracks that takes me straight back to that summer

Antelope | 26 Oct '13, 03:42 | X
- Oh man. Those synths. Loving this,
  
  Antelope @Antelope | 26 Oct '13, 10:23 | X
  - I'm enjoying this more than the new Arcade Fire
    
    Antelope @Antelope | 27 Oct '13, 01:22 | X
    - I just stubbed my toe on the coffee table
      
      Even that was more enjoyable than the new Arcade Fire.
      
      ThirstyDog @Antelope | 29 Oct '13, 13:37 | X
      - Reflektor taking over from Random Access Memories
        
        as this year's album that people find any excuse to slate when talking about any other albums, no matter how unrelated.
        
        kiyonemakibi @ThirstyDog | 29 Oct '13, 13:49 | X
        
        Give it a rest mate
        
        You work for their PR or something?
        
        wonton @kiyonemakibi | 29 Oct '13, 14:01 | X
        
        http://i.imgur.com/i8t438S.gif
        
        Antelope @kiyonemakibi | 31 Oct '13, 23:26 | X
In Ghost Colours is a great record.

Still listen to that a lot now, especially during the summer. Not normally into that kind of thing, but it's near flawless.

Have found all their other records extremely boring.

mala | 26 Oct '13, 13:47 | X

Puds this'd this
- including this or no?
  
  SCROTUM @mala | 26 Oct '13, 19:18 | X
I couldn't connect with Zonoscope.

But I'm back onboard now.

Septimus97 | 26 Oct '13, 22:33 | X
gets better with every listen

love it

oldfamenewfame | 27 Oct '13, 10:45 | X
they already did top In Ghost Colours

before they even released it.

robluvsnic | 28 Oct '13, 01:32 | X
Fuck me ragged

this is a seriously wonderful album. Sitting here with a big dumb grin on my face listening to it. Right up there with In Ghost Colours, and I never thought I'd say that.

ThirstyDog | 28 Oct '13, 03:54 | X

Antelope this'd this
- What I like about it
  
  is they've stopped trying to impress Pitchfork (which they were obviously doing on Zonoscope) & turned the cheeseometer back up to 11. "Shine on brother", Balearic basslines, Italian house piano...fucking lovin' it. If this had come out in 1990 it would've been massive.
  
  ThirstyDog @ThirstyDog | 28 Oct '13, 07:18 | X
can't get over how good this is. gonna make a late run for AOTY

it's like if Yeasayer had kept the genius of 'O.N.E.' going across a whole album

SCROTUM | 28 Oct '13, 12:16 | X
Looking forward to finally givingthe stream a go

There's something still exciting about waiting to hear an album that you're 99% sure will put a big dumb grin on your face.

wonton | 28 Oct '13, 12:29 | X
YAAYYYYYYYYY

I feared terrible piano house pastiche, I got Dance Hits 94*. I've gone full circle and I like it

*I know this kinda reference already got made but it was EXACTLY what I was feeling about it too

snow_brigade | 29 Oct '13, 10:46 | X
- I also like the fact
  
  that there's a totally random ELO pastiche in there too. Fucking love it, played it to death this week.
  
  ThirstyDog @snow_brigade | 29 Oct '13, 10:48 | X
  
  snow_brigade this'd this
it's interesting how everyone's saying it put a smile on their face

because i caught myself grinning too, and this has got to be the first album in a very long time that has done that. found myself bopping my head to it too. and i never bop.

Antelope | 29 Oct '13, 10:51 | X

ThirstyDog and snow_brigade this'd this
- I've caught myself shaking imaginary maracas
  
  ThirstyDog @Antelope | 29 Oct '13, 10:52 | X
  
  Antelope this'd this
I like 'Reflektor' but I'm listening to 'Free Your Mind', a lot more. Superb fun!

It's better than 'Zonoscope' (though that is a very good album), and might even be just as good as 'In Ghost Colours'.

It's a really clever salute to the acid house music of the later 80s and 90s, and I concur with others, who've said that that this album would have been huge, had it been released back then. Might even have been a classic now.

I'd even go so far as to court ridicule by suggesting that Cut// Copy are savyer musicians than the artists they're influenced by here.

Certainly one of the AOTY year for me. They've only gone and done it, again!

Violator | 29 Oct '13, 12:54 | X

snow_brigade and Antelope this'd this
- This makes me excited to hear it
  
  film_maker @Violator | 29 Oct '13, 16:09 | X
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Must... wait... for... CD. Must... not... stream.

Damian | 29 Oct '13, 13:10 | X
This will be even more fantastic in their live show.

cronenberg | 29 Oct '13, 17:29 | X

Antelope this'd this
Two stars in the Guardian

Boo, hiss etc

kiyonemakibi | 31 Oct '13, 22:50 | X
- Can't think of any publication I trust less with music reviews
  
  Than the guardian, though Petridis is usually okay. Always seem to judge albums on overall sound...and never the strength of songwriting.
  
  wonton @kiyonemakibi | 31 Oct '13, 23:43 | X
- how
  
  SCROTUM @kiyonemakibi | 1 Nov '13, 04:19 | X
- not just me that's disappointed by it then
  
  surprised to see such positivity on here (and you lot know how much I love them)
  
  sean @kiyonemakibi | 1 Nov '13, 12:54 | X
  - Come on sean
    
    It's just uncomplicated fun. Every track has a great hook. You don't want to be lumped in with these hacks.
    
    wonton @sean | 1 Nov '13, 13:04 | X
    
    Antelope this'd this
- but we have 8/10 in 405
  
  http://thefourohfive.com/review/article/cut-copy-free-your-mind
  
  cronenberg @kiyonemakibi | 1 Nov '13, 12:59 | X
can't wait to hear this

have been listening to zonoscope loads lately.

Good_Bone | 31 Oct '13, 23:08 | X
Those tracks sound very very promising

If the album is at least as good as Zonoscope, I might start thinking about Cut Copy as the best band of the last 10 years.

friday55 | 1 Nov '13, 00:35 | X
the Spiritualized remix of free yr mind is aces..

freddiehubbard | 1 Nov '13, 13:07 | X
- the fort romeau one is amazing too, i like it more than the original
  
  oldfamenewfame @freddiehubbard | 2 Nov '13, 21:41 | X
  - Yeah this remix is brilliant
    
    Made me check out Fort Romeau's other stuff too, which is very good
    
    outspaced @oldfamenewfame | 4 Nov '13, 10:49 | X
www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18689-cut-copy-free-your-mind/

Eesh. Reads like a 5.something.

I like it. Not blown away, but the last three took a while to sink in.

chris_armo | 4 Nov '13, 08:44 | X
I was going to make a joke

about how Pitchfork was probably going to give this 6.0 or something, and lo and behold:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18689-cut-copy-free-your-mind/

kiyonemakibi | 4 Nov '13, 08:44 | X
- We must all be wrong eh?
  
  wonton @kiyonemakibi | 4 Nov '13, 09:48 | X
  - Thankfully there's been some good reviews so far
    
    http://anydecentmusic.com/review/5983/Cut-Copy-Free-Your-Mind.aspx
    
    kiyonemakibi @wonton | 4 Nov '13, 09:55 | X
- urgh and no doubt the dis review's gonna be bad too because sean was disappointed
  
  smdh
  
  Antelope @kiyonemakibi | 4 Nov '13, 09:58 | X
4/10 from Spin now too

The tepid reviews for this and the Sleigh Bells album of late are leaving me somewhat baffled

kiyonemakibi | 5 Nov '13, 22:22 | X

Antelope this'd this
I think my favourite songs off of this are

Free Your Mind, Footsteps, Take Me Higher, and Walking in the Sky. This album is probably going to end up soundtracking my summer. It's a shame you guys got this at the time of year you did, because you can tell with the timing of it's release it's supposed to be a summer album.

Antelope | 5 Nov '13, 22:50 | X
Well

I love Cut Copy but I'm finding the vapidity of the lyrics a bit of a struggle on this one, even though that was never really a) their strong suit or b) the point of the exercise, I suspect. I know it's meant to be a homage to all the "summer of love" stuff but some of the rhyming couplets make me think of Noel Gallagher way too much for my liking.

Musically it's great though and I imagine it'll be ace live...

Damian | 6 Nov '13, 10:23 | X
- I hear ya
  
  But I think complaining about the lyrics on a Cut Copy album is like buying a sausage roll & then complaining that it's got a sausage in it. One of the best tracks off In Ghost Colours had a chorus that went "Lights & music are on my mind/Be my baby one more time", so you can't say you weren't warned :)
  
  ThirstyDog @Damian | 7 Nov '13, 06:53 | X
  - I know
    
    You're right. Like I said, lyrics were never their strongest suit but stuff like "You've got to reach the sky if you want your love to shine" (at least I think that's what it was) is maybe a touch too far on the cringe-o-meter for me!
    
    Still, as I mentioned above I'm having a weekend in Paris at the end of the month just to see them so I think it's fair to say they haven't managed to put me off that much...
    
    Damian @ThirstyDog | 7 Nov '13, 07:56 | X
    - Footsteps in the night, footsteps in the night yee-eeah
      
      Echo through my life, echo through my life yee-eeah
      
      ThirstyDog @Damian | 7 Nov '13, 08:24 | X
Third listen in

Yeah it's ok. Quite like the tunes, vocals leaving me a bit cold but sure it'll grow on me. Liked Zonoscope but found it to personally just be In ghost colours MK II, so am at least glad this is a bit of a departure from that sound.

vamos | 7 Nov '13, 08:27 | X
I'm still mega disappointed by it

but Rob Leedham warmed to it a little http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17982/reviews/4147120

sean | 8 Nov '13, 10:50 | X
- Doesn't sound like he warmed to it very much...
  
  Gutted that this isn't getting the attention it deserves. Far from a perfect album, and could definitely lose some fat, but most of this is absolute gold.
  
  orangejuice @sean | 8 Nov '13, 11:25 | X
  
  kiyonemakibi, Antelope, SCROTUM, and oldfamenewfame this'd this
- It's at least an 8
  
  couldn't disagree more with the review.
  
  Antelope @sean | 8 Nov '13, 11:31 | X
I do not understand some of the reviews

especially when it mention the lack of highlights such "Need You Now" or "Hearts on Fire"... FFS:
Meet Me in a House of Love?
In Memory Capsule?
We Are Explorers?

cronenberg | 8 Nov '13, 16:41 | X
- three bona fide song of the year contenders
  
  strong bafflement at the critical indifference / occasional cases of mauling
  
  SCROTUM @cronenberg | 8 Nov '13, 18:23 | X
- not to mention Walking in the Sky!
  
  Antelope @cronenberg | 8 Nov '13, 21:23 | X
its a 6 for me

Jordan_229_2 | 8 Nov '13, 18:44 | X
I can't understand it either.

Certainly one of the best releases to come out right at the end of the year.

Very good fun all the way through.

Violator | 8 Nov '13, 21:53 | X
I could be wrong

But maybe people's reactions to this album depend on how old they are, & whether they experienced this kind of stuff first time round in 1989-91? It pushes all my buttons & makes me really nostalgic, but I guess if you don't have that reaction to it, it probably sounds like a load of dated hippy shite.

ThirstyDog | 9 Nov '13, 11:20 | X
- I didn't even exist during those years, but yeah I see where you're coming from
  
  basically if you don't have an appreciation for dance music during those years then it's unlikely this kinda thing's gonna appeal.
  
  Antelope @ThirstyDog | 9 Nov '13, 11:24 | X
  - my favourite song of all time is Livin Joy's Dreamer
    
    go figure
    
    SCROTUM @Antelope | 9 Nov '13, 13:30 | X
    
    ThirstyDog this'd this
    - Love a bit of Bizarre Inc meself
      
      ThirstyDog @SCROTUM | 9 Nov '13, 16:06 | X
this is good

gonad | 9 Nov '13, 17:46 | X

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