Cut Copy are set to return in 2008 with the shimmering timelessness of In Ghost Colours. Haunted with machines of the past and sounds of the future, In Ghost Colours inhabits the kind of space in time where trends are irrelevant and music is about feeling rather than following and 1969 is just as relevant as 2020. At once both jacking and jangly, electronic and organic, Cut Copy have crafted a record filled with glorious sounds and moods but also unabashedly pop song structures and hooks and melodies for eons…
In Ghost Colours traverses genres effortlessly, from already-anthem Hearts On Fire’s epic sax-house to Midnight Runner’s grungegaze. For the band the record was an exercise of drawing parallels between favourites and trying to find a meeting point in between, from the vocodered robo-pop of French house to prog’s soaring harmonies to the texture of shoegaze and finding their place in a song where these ideas can intersect and inhabit rather than overtly influence.
The progression from Bright Like Neon Love to In Ghost Colours is brazenly apparent from opening track Feel The Love, an acoustic guitar led stomp of a space rock tune, instantly unforgettable and with recognizable Cut Copy sheen. Where Bright Like Neon Love was charmingly vague and hazy, In Ghost Colours is to the point and efficient in it’s songcraft, with vocals much more apparent and Whitford’s imprint all over every track. The record is sewn together with passages of woozy dreamscapes between the straight out jams.
The Cut Copy legacy continues, In Ghost Colours, set for release in March 2008.
