Cut Copy - Zonoscope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm3Uqhb8JGU

just finished listening to this first single?

they are brilliant, great new song.

like a glossier Apples in Stereo. not sure if this is a good thing, or if now's a particularly opportune moment for sunny psych-inflected 60s style pop/rock. unexpected, though.

I kind of hate this song.

song's alright but i don't really need another record that sounds like this.

this sounds kind of terrible tbh

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

this is garbage :(

was kind of expecting something way better when he was talking in an interview abt it having an 80s african feel, which is the kind of shit i looooove

i don't really need another record that sounds like this.

yes you do, stop fucken whinging

so beach boys the single

song's alright but i don't really need and I can always use another record that sounds like this.

The entire concept of a new Cut Copy album sends shivers down my spine.

ummm i like the song actually. not bril or anything but it'll do.

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

this, not a fan at all

i dig the haring style art

really like the song too

This could be something of a red herring though. They've been namedropping Berlin-era Bowie as an influence in interviews.

yeah , i love the song but hope it's just a one off single

i can't really see how this would fit into an album unless it were some psychedelic journey, so here's hoping they don't go that route

this makingof clip excites me: hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDRWU_owMXk

i can totally get behind dude yelling into a guitar pickup

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

― Number None, Friday, July 16, 2010 5:18 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Not a direction i wanted to see them go in.

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Makes sense to me. There's always been a Fleetwood Mac/ELO side to them (art-MOR?) in addition to the dance stuff.

I just listened to it again. I don't kind of hate this song anymore. I've decided instead to just ignore it and let it be. I have no attachment to Cut Copy anyway, so if they want to write songs like this one, why should I care?

It sounds like they read Pitchfork.

I made it a minute and a half in. Does it ever do anything except that boring meandering schaffel beat?

it doesn't even sound like the Beach Boys, to be honest. It sounds like a wanky Animal Collective styled "remake" of Rock N Roll Part 1 and really, the KLF did the only remake of that you ever need to hear.

It sounds like a wanky Animal Collective styled "remake" of Rock N Roll Part 1

yes

Except I think I mean Rock N Roll Part 2. D'oh!

I know what you meant.. As if the world needs more songs with the same drums as "S.O.S." and "If You Seek Amy," like that hasn't been done enough in the past 4 years...

What a bunch of bullshit.. They went from In Ghost Colors to THIS? Seriously?

It sounds like a wanky Animal Collective styled "remake" of Rock N Roll Part 1

Ha, I actually like it better with this in mind.

I might need some time to digest it, but once upon a time I loved "Far Away" "Hearts On Fire" and "So Haunted" immediately..

It's so long lead I can only imagine this single is some slight misdirection. The band knows which side of the bread its butter is on.

saw them yesterday and they played this and of course the crowd was '...'

yeah, this track is a terrible let-down from in ghost colors. they seem like a fairly savvy band; is there some way releasing this song as misdirection could be read as a smart move?

it sounds like What The Kids Are Listening To

sounds like yall hate fun

Well, as far as diffusing any hype, it could work as misdirection. I think more bands should cobble together and leak tracks that throw people off the scent, then drop something completely different come the actual day. Like, up to the last minute I wished the LCD album would feature a different mix on the final product.

sounds like they bought the Beatles box and then got 'inspired' to record a new album.

Like, up to the last minute I wished the LCD album would feature a different mix on the final product.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, July 19, 2010 3:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I still wish for this.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo!"

hmmm.. where have i heard that before...

http://ring.cdandlp.com/luckystar/photo_grande/113910869.jpg

Ew.

On the extremely short list of rock stars I do NOT want to see naked, they're pretty high up.

Is Mick Jagger the single most unattractive man to ever become a sex symbol or what?

lol

I figured that was the most famous "Brown Sugar" sleeve image..

could be worse.. at least it's them in 1971

Jagger looks better now actually.

I generally like skinny dudes, but Jagger is pidgeonchested in a really really unattractive way. Combined with the toothpick arms and little girl legs, it's just... no. nononononononnoonoooo no.

Do not want.

Want even less than that terrible Cut Copy single above.

still contemplating my 'tim goldsworthy is secret ingredient / genius' theory. anybody know if he's involved with the new album?

wtf is this song?

sounds like a poor attempt to approximate psych-y era beatles/beach-boys. not a good sound for this band. not a sound anyone needs to do again. also, represents the first time i've heard anything reminding me of the beatles in years. blech. thankfully, you just don't hear the beatles anymore.

"Sounds like the beatles" usually means "sounds like Oasis" in most contexts i've heard over the past 10 years... (like when Jet tried to "sound like the beatles" but really just sounded like Oasis.. etc...)

still contemplating my 'tim goldsworthy is secret ingredient / genius' theory. anybody know if he's involved with the new album?

Don’t know anything for sure, but it seems very unlikely if they’ve been working on it in a Melbourne warehouse and not going to London. (Anyway, he didn’t have anything to do with I Thought Of Numbers or the good singles off the second album.

"Sounds like the beatles" usually means "sounds like Oasis" in most contexts i've heard over the past 10 years...

yes, and the same criticism applies. the world needs no new oasis. if we did need one, coldplay would happily oblige.

i liked cut copy's last album a lot, but didn't understand why some people love it so passionately (i did get that they sounded like a new new-order, and i fully supported that). listening to this horrible new song gives me a new perspective on how good they were before.

this song isnt horrible, its just kinda ok, like one of the lesser traxx off 'in ghost colours'

i bet this new album is humongous. the song they premiered @ lolla sounds dope

anyone post this yet? tim goldsworthy mix of take me over (the song that bites fleetwood mac) - http://www.modularpeople.com/audio/cut-copy-offer-free-mp3-announce-tracklisting-for-/4099.html

Album has leaked as well.

Hope they wrote a whole album's worth of songs besides three good ones and lots of gauze.

I suspect the latter. Those three songs will probably be pretty good though.

excited abt this

h8rs!!! step back
1st track is ^________^

ok this album is great

HANGING ON TO EVERY HEARTBEAT

i love this record A+++++

where I'm going is garbage

i disagree

please tell me this doesn't sound at all like the nu-beatles song they leaked last year

sounds like some cotton mather steez to me. I wasn't a fan of the second album either tho, so...

u guys got suckered in by their mislead singles

they released the ultimate track 2's from that record

got suckered in by the half dece first album

sets expectations in a weird place, smart move imo

i don't really like where i'm going but the rest is pretty great at first listen + sounds like regular cut copy

u guys got suckered in by their mislead singles

glad to hear they lulled me to sleep with a shitty beatles impression. i'd rather hear their nu-new order impression.

its raelly not that shitty

woof - this baby's a dog

On first listen this is no better or worse than its predecessors, but I don't hear a "So Haunted." "Need You Now" ain't it.

surprised this hasn't been posted on this thread yet, given that it's been around for a few months now, but the sleeve design & illustration for this is A+++++ imo

http://www.stoneyroads.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/cc-zonoscope-530x530.jpg

Illustration is older than all cut copy members combined. Also previously used on gold selling album from 70s but yeah

thanks for the heads up, looking so forward to this!

changing title to reflect updated album info.

this just sounds like an incredibly deflated retread of the last album (which i loved). i think ghost colors did a good job of alternating between this listless mood and bits that punched in a little bit, swept things up, credibly raved out. hardly any such moments on this one, imo.

I don't hear a "So Haunted."

This was actually my 1st question... Is there anything as good as "So Haunted?" Now I'm bummed out.

so haunted is the off-key elo-ish song, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njVf-9PItvY

lol, everyone itt is wrong & i am right as usual

this just sounds like an incredibly deflated retread of the last album (which i loved). i think ghost colors did a good job of alternating between this listless mood and bits that punched in a little bit, swept things up, credibly raved out. hardly any such moments on this one, imo.

― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Saturday, January 15, 2011 9:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this feels like an incredibly inaccurate description of this record afaik

afai can tell, rather

its so weird to me that this band is at all divisive. idgi this stuff is so obviously great & amazing to me

i mean, yknow, lol taste and all that. i guess i just cant understand how ppl rep for like, the xx & james blake but are all wishy washy about these guys. this record is more consistent than the last one. i like how 'pharoahs and pyramids' basically shows H&LA how to properly incorporate house textures & styles into music ... that track vs 'my house' is like no conest

haha -- I'm skeptical of all three.

No reason at all for "Sun God" to go on for twenty-four hours either.

oh yeah, so haunted is the off-key elo-ish song. thanks, billstevejim.

I think it's unfair to expect/insist on songs that replicate the feel of the previous album. Ghost Colours will forever be their best album. This new one is also very good but it's just not as immediate as the last. After a few times through and some basic song recognition, I'm really enjoying Zonoscope. I assume you would have bitched about Low-Life not having anything like Blue Monday or Your Silent Face too.

I assume you would have bitched about Low-Life not having anything like Blue Monday or Your Silent Face too.

Low-Life has "The Perfect Kiss," though! I've just gone back and listened to both, and it's not just that there's nothing here as good as "So Haunted"--there's nothing here as good as ANY of the proper songs (not interludes) from the last album. I'll give this some more listens, but so far I can't see how it's anything but a big disappointment after Ghost Colours.

No reason at all for "Sun God" to go on for twenty-four hours either.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, January 16, 2011 7:08 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they totally pull this off

i like this album listening experience, overall, more than in ghost colours, 100% -- there just nothing as immediately banging as 'hearts on fire' & 'lights and music' but overall many of these songs are just as good imho

I can see where you're coming from but I still think it's unfair to expect them to match the last album. It was just packed front to back with amazing songs. I think this one is also good but Ghost Colours is Cut Copy's masterpiece and will never be equalled. We shouldn't expect another album as good as that one. I think Zonoscope will be a grower.

regardless, i feel like i've really "arrived" on ILM now that i'm vehemently disagreeing with deej about something.

just don't get sonned in a twitter beef

"some basic song recognition" otm. it's just less immediate. give it a handful of rounds - things snap into place and get terribly infectious as always. it's a little less anthem and more atmosphere throughout (barring Pharaohs, which I think is as big as anything they've done). LOVE the use of guitar feedback as padding. Love the many vocal attitudes and hooky mantras (Sun God's "you've got to LIVE"). Tons to chew on here and it keeps getting better.

i dunno all these songs hit me as awesome immediately.

does this album have an 'out there on the ice'?

they do that sort of dynamic build/release thing really well but the last album only had a couple tracks that pulled it off effectively

At its worst this thing sounds like Thompson Twins fronting Simple Minds.

Ha, at its best it sort of sounds like Thompson Twins fronting Simple Minds, too! With a bit of '80s Buckingham Mac as well, of course.

I don't think this album is nearly as good as "In Ghost Colours," an album I still listen to pretty religiously, but it hits the spot nonetheless. It feels, sensibly, like another chapter in an ongoing story.

The vocal on the opening track reminds me of OMD.

love the interpolation of chicago/bucketheads on teh last track

The vocal on the opening track reminds me of OMD.

― brotherlovesdub,

Yeah you're completely spot on, at about 4 minutes into Need You Know song he just turns into Andy Mccluskey.

After a couple of plays I'm really impressed. I think the album really kicks in with the last 2 minutes of Pharaohs & Pyramids and doesn't let up after that. I hadn't heard Where I'm Going before now but I really hate it, I really don't know what they were thinking putting it out as the first single.

haha whoops.

i think where im going provides needed variation & im not sure why ppl are so against it. certainly not my fav track or anything

I think it's unfair to expect/insist on songs that replicate the feel of the previous album.

That's not what I said, and not what I was suggesting.. Merely looking for something just as good.

I am quite sorry for the Rolling Stones sleeve posted earlier... There's like 5 different "Brown Sugar" images. That was the wrong one to post here.

Ugh, you guys had me thinking this was coming out real soon. Still gotta wait a couple more weeks! I'm hoping I agree with deej as In Ghost Colours is one of my all-time favorite rekerds.

this thing sounds amazing as the soundtrack for Flight Control (iPhone/iPad/Mac game)

Ghost Colours will forever be their best album.

except Thought Of Numbers is

this feels like an incredibly inaccurate description of this record afaik

― *gets the power* (deej), Sunday, January 16, 2011 5:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol the 'inaccurate' argument gets trotted out again

next thing you know ya'll are gonna be denying the mountain

when dayo listens to the record it sounds like led zeppelin -- dont tell him hes wrong tho everything is subjective

you can def hear led zeppelin in this

in fact, I would describe their influence on this record as being 'mountainous'

i would describe your reading comprehension as 'nonexistent'

do u have an opinion on the record or are u just into riding stale zings

i think it sounds like led zeppelin

so the latter

making mountains outta pyramids here imo

Hooks are fine but vocals suck. He really wants to be Hosano or something

Great album. "Take Me Over" reminds us that they are from a land down under.

just abandoning the 'expectations game' here completely - imo this is a classic

hanging onto every <3beat

Honestly loving deej's enthusiasm for this and can't wait to hear it. In Ghost Colours was fantastic and if this is even half as good, it'll be well worth hearing.

except Thought Of Numbers is

no

yes

Have just downloaded Thought of Numbers. Will chime in when I finish listening to it.

Doesn't even sound like Cut Copy. It's a good EP but it's ridiculous to say it's the best Cut Copy album. Wish I hadn't even taken the bait now.

Can CC ever top "Saturdays"? NO

Doesn't even sound like Cut Copy.

lol @ u, what else did they sound like at the time?

The Avalanches, basically

Doesn't even sound like Cut Copy. It's a good EP but it's ridiculous to say it's the best Cut Copy album. Wish I hadn't even taken the bait now.

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, January 17, 2011 5:55 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i meant 2 warn you. i do like that track 'live' tho

putting this on and I'm disappointed 'need you now' isn't a lady antebellum cover...yet

ha -- a friend sent me a text message on Saturday: "`Need You Now' is SO incredible." Since he hates pop music, I thought he'd come around to the wondrousness of that Lady Antebellum single.

I revisited 'in ghost colours' recently and it didn't blow me away as much as it did back when I first heard it - dunno if my taste have changed or if I just overrated to begin with. the hooks just didn't seem as huge.

so far this is pleasant...but I can't get the phrase "clap your hands say yeah with slightly pitched down vocals" out of my head

i still fkn love where im going

woah this is nothing like i thought this band would sound, thought it was a dance music thing

feels like sloppy pastiche at times, but it's a sloppy pastiche of stuff I totally love. OMD track, Lindstrom track, Add Some Music to My Day vocals, ELO, Cowley electronics, it feels personally made for me. Hope it all comes together.

I'm a sucker for "Blink and You'll Miss a Revolution." In fact, I'm a sucker for all of this. Sure, it's not as good as the last one, but not many records of its ilk are. I wouldn't expect New Order to release more than one "Technique," and I wouldn't expect another "In Ghost Colours" from Cut Copy. Just not fair to the band.

(Now, I bet Lindsey Buckingham could have made another "Tango in the Night," but by then he was done with the band.)

In Ghost Colours was certainly not at Technique's level.

Honestly, aside from Cut Copy not being New Order, I rate them pretty similarly, though perhaps for different reasons.

This album is much more sonically and stylistically varied than In Ghost Colours which was very immediate and concentrated but also samey - it took time for me to differentiate the great songs. This one is going to take time in a different way. Or maybe the tempos are just slower.

cut copy has a similar sound and vibe to new order (upthread, i called them nu-new order). but i'm not sure how much of that comparison represents my desire to see new acts as updated versions of acts i loved in my youth.

i'm sure all us children of the late 70s -- 80s could compile such a list -- e.g., the nu-joy division (interpol); the nu-elo (new pornos or super furry animals) -- but it's kind of a pointless and self-absorbed endeavor.

not that i'm against being pointless or self-absorbed!

New Order are goofier and less apt to lapse into aural sameness.

This is enjoyable enough but I'm not sure it really lives up to the promise of the first two tracks. Those two tracks are great though.

I like "Alisa," "Take Me Over," "Blink And You'll Miss A Revolution," and will take an edited version of "Need You Now" if one exists.

i think 'with every heartbeat' is the best track personally

Thinking my love of "Blink And You'll Miss A Revolution" stems from its passing resemblance to "Everything Counts."

wait they covered a robyn song? xp

loool. no -- hanging on to every heartbeat

reading too many year end lists

Year-end lists from 2007?

precisely -- ive been going thru looking at writers' last couple years of ballots

some big name critic had that as their #1 single iirc

cant get 07 ballots to load now? weird

Like the Mr. Fingers nod/reference/interpretation/steal in "Pharaohs & Pyramids."

Just going to repost what I said upthread:

Great album. "Take Me Over" reminds us that they are from a land down under.

Can't get "AH LEEE SAAAAAH OOOOHHH WOAH" out of my head.

still love this btw

"Alisa" and "Need You Now" are the only two tracks I've kept.

I really liked Need You Now until someone pointed out it sounded like a synthpop U2, and now I can't get that out of my mind.

ew

sigh

i guess i should go back & read the thread, but in short: is this any good? i'd be interested to hear it the less it resembles, say, MGMT and other "indie electronic" acts... more so actual synth-pop & dance music.

what say you?

i like it. it's pretty catchy i found and i'm still listening to it a few weeks after first hearing it

It's insubstantial apart from a couple of tracks.

I don't hear any MGMT, but I feel like this is their most varied yet (bear in mind, I'm only one listen in at this point). I hear some Depeche Mode and other 80s touchstones, but also a few throwbacks to the 60s and 70s as well.

alfred, what do you recommend I hear to get a feel for the album?

"Need You Now"

i'm a lil drunk & i need u now :(

alfred, what do you recommend I hear to get a feel for the album?

"Alisa" and "Need You Now."

"Alisa" and "Need You Now" are the only two tracks I've kept.

was enjoying this over the weekend, nice summer record - first track's good, 'alisa' is good, 'pharaohs + pyramids' good too. some of second half is less memorable but it does flow along nicely, i didn't have the urge to turn it off or anything. the 'everywhere' rip is a bit gross.

only listened once but was sorely disappointed by this, not even one potential hit

is disappointing in the same way the last midnight juggernauts album was for me but do like pharoahs & pyramids and sun god

I heard Cut Copy for the first time on the radio this morning. I think I heard a remix of theirs a few years ago, and I really didn't remember what they sounded like. "Need You Know" is the song I heard and I thought it was new OMD. Anyway, I think it's a pretty good song.

I like the album. This even though "So Haunted" (the verse in particular) sounds a bit too harsh to me, a bit too Killing Joke/Magazine/Wire wannabe, and even though I like those three bands, they weren't really what I expect Cut/Copy to be about.

i think the central thesis of tom b.'s pfork review (that they've become a full on dance band) is right, but it has def come at the expense of their songs qua songs. cuz this record sounds good and it sounds "right" but after the first two songs nothing sticks imo

This album isn't as disappointing as has been made out, but the live show is really lacking. "Sun God" just doesn't work as a live jam, it's too ambling and drifting to not get boring. It's a shame, I saw them touring when In Ghost Colours came out and it was one of the best gigs I've been to.

yeah i dont really get the muted response around here, unless my enthusiasm put people off or something. this is still one of the strongest releases ive heard this year, certainly in terms of songwriting (i dont know how you can say 'nothing sticks' beyond the first two songs ... the first track is the song i play back the least & 'pharoahs & pyramids" & for the last time "hanging on to every heartbeat" are great, memorable, well written & timeless tracks??) but idk maybe its the ilx sausage party thing cuz i was surprised to find on the last.fm gender chart that cut copy cut 70% female fanbase or something like that

Yeah but plenty of (male) people on here loved their last album.

yeah i dunno, the critical response elsewhere seemed pretty enthusiastic tho to this one

although, maybe the last one also was a grower for folks?

I think most people were pretty enthusiastic for In Ghost Colours right off the bat. Feels like this one was anticipated heavily and then when it came out people just stopped talking about it. I can't get into at all personally.

i still need to listen to this--was never enamored with them before but some of the enthusiasm in here got me interested

I think most people were pretty enthusiastic for In Ghost Colours right off the bat. Feels like this one was anticipated heavily and then when it came out people just stopped talking about it. I can't get into at all personally.

― Number None, Sunday, March 6, 2011 10:17 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who are 'people'?

Nah, I've always thought they were just okay beyond a couple of singles per album.

Ppl were more enthusiastic about In Ghost Colours because it's much much better. This one feels a bit laboured and even Sun God doesn't quite take off in the way it should.

People i know, People on the internet. People.

the only thing i prefer abt it is the production does sound better w/ goldsworthy but the songwriting is still more consistent on this one imo. outside of the big singles on 'ghost colours' i dont think its nearly as good

and alfred, based on the tracks you told ppl were 'representative' of this record's sound, it doesnt sound like you've given much of a shot to the rest of this record either, like, this is representative the same way 'livin a lie' was

Heard it four times, picked my two standouts. S'all I need.

Very sorry to disappoint you.

think the problem is that you said they were representative, not that they were standouts

Fair enough. Standout tracks can be representative, but representative tracks aren't always standouts (e.g. "Sun God").

"In Ghost Colours" was also a great album, but so heavily compressed I actually have trouble listening to it. "Zonoscope" is better in that respect.

I think people who liked In Ghost Colours but aren't feeling this as much might dig the Holy Ghost! album.

Played it again, "Sun God" really does 'take off' when playing at a high volume on your headphones in a darkened room at midnight*.

* - some people may suggest that could happen with any half-decent song, but that ain't true

I think people who liked In Ghost Colours but aren't feeling this as much might dig the Holy Ghost! album.

The Holy Ghost! album is like Cut Copy with weaker songs and more cheese, all formalist replication but little inspiration, IMO.

Nowt wrong with a bit of cheese. Also, weaker songs? Couldn't sing a hook off the Cut Copy record if you payed me.

^^^these are the posts itt i cant understand whatsoever. these guys live to create hooks. i could sing these songs like the 2nd time i heard them

Last album had hooks, this one doesn't.

yeah dude i know what you meant & i think you're entirely wrong

I really wanted to like this album, just find it a chore for whatever reason. It seems kind of telling that you're one of the few people on this thread who is really enthusiastic about it. It's obviously missing something that In Ghost Colours wasn't.

whatever its missing its not 'hooks'

i still think its a much more consistent record than 'in ghost colours' but it is aiming for something different so i can see why some people might not vibe w/ it who had only a passing attachment to the last record

This is good, naturally
http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/04/listen-carl-craig-remix-cut-copy

Like both this one and this year's effort by Architecture in Helsinki. The 80s are back with a passion. :)

The 80s are back with a passion. :)
where have you been the past 10 years?

i listened to Zonoscope for the first time last night. all i have to say is the people trashing "Where I'm Going" upthread are insane. Kaiser is otm, i thought Beach Boys almost right away. SO GOOD!

i still LOVE the first two singles

which tracks were those?

take me over & where i'm going

Take Me Over reminds me so much of Talking Heads.

I got this album for Christmas and have been listening to it nonstop in the car ever since. So good!

i hope whoever got you that gift got something very special in return!

Oh, I got her a bottle of Blanton's Special Reserve bourbon.

I was one of those who felt slightly disappointed with Zonoscope when I first heard it, with In Ghost Colours being one of my all-time favorite albums. But when I went to rate the individual songs in itunes for a playlist I created, I realized that I loved almost every song (I counted two as stinkers - one was a short instrumental, iirc).

i gave this a spin again last week, still holds up pretty well actually. (weirdly i don't find myself going back to 'in ghost colours' much these days - i still like the first one the best.)

Yeah I got it out after it placed in the EOY poll and liked most of it - still loathe that fake Beach Boys track tho.

i liked that one for... doing the dishes to. o_O

New single:

https://soundcloud.com/modularpeople/cut-copy-let-me-show-you

So it is a "cover" of K-Klass then.

Not sure it works so well without the massive piano hooks of the original

Yeah, sounds like a lark, taking the hooks and tempo out of the original.

This album is so good. It's become my go-to Cut Copy.

This album sounds better than it did at the time, though for a comparable fix I still go to Holy Ghost!