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Cut Copy is a GRAMMY® nominated, ARIA award-winning musical act with numerous festival-headling slots and over 1,000 sold-out headline shows spanning several continents to date.
Initially the bedroom recording project of Dan Whitford, Cut Copy evolved into a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning. The quartet’s studio albums include In Ghost Colours, which Pitchfork named as one of the best albums of 2008 and among the top albums of the 2000s, and 2011’s Zonoscope, which won two ARIA Awards and was nominated for a GRAMMY®. Their last album, 2017’s Haiku From Zero, represented the band at their most refined and efficiently emotive.
Cut Copy’s songs have been licensed for use in television, games and commercials, including FIFA 18, Chevrolet, Netflix, Amazon, and Levi’s® #LiveinLevis campaign. DJing and mixes have also been a big part of their identity – from the band’s famed Fabric mix, Fabriclive.29, to the 2014 Melbourne dance compilation, Oceans Apart. In addition to headlining massive sold-out shows, the band has gained prime slots at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Ultra, and Lollapalooza in the U.S.; Primavera in Spain, Pitchfork in Paris; Summer Sonic in Japan; and Big Day Out in Australia.
Cut Copy are Dan Whitford, Tim Hoey, Ben Browning and Mitchell Scott.
CUT COPY
RETURN WITH FIRST SINGLE & VIDEO IN THREE YEARS
“LOVE IS ALL WE SHARE”
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Melbourne electronic music royalty, Cut Copy return today with their ambient new single and video, “Love Is All We Share.” The first track in almost three years breathes a universal truth, released to the world at a time where our longing for love in solitude has never been more relevant.
As one of Australia’s most successful exports, with a career spanning nineteen years, five acclaimed albums and countless anthems, Cut Copy’s anticipated return forgoes the danceability factor to deliver a timely reminder of our common need for connection in isolation. The atmospheric release rides the intensity and transcendence of our yearning for love, with Dan Whitford delivering haunting lines like “can you feel it in your bones, can you feel it in your fingers,” tapping into the physicality of the complex set of emotions. The purposeful lyrics are layered with intelligent production, playing out an intense build of staggering piano vamps and billowing synths, to mimic the euphoric highs of love and our limitless desire for more.
Dan Whitford on the new track:
“Love Is All We Share” is a song we made using only a handful of sounds, hoping to create an intimate and unworldly atmosphere. It was written a year ago about the anxieties of imagined future times, as technology becomes more all-consuming. But in light of recent events the song took on an eerie significance. Now, with our immediate future uncertain and people the world over self isolating, “love” more than ever, feels like one of the best things we can share.”
Directed by American contemporary artist Takeshi Murata, the accompanying video communicates the track’s themes through his work in hyper-realism and computer-simulated imagery, creating an entrancing space of interconnected digital sculptures. Murata says on the video: “Of the ideas we had, the floating bubbles stood out – representing elements of the song best with animation that’s meditative. For me, the bubbles point to our relationships and their fragility, relevant to the lyrics and time.”
“Love Is All We Share” is the first taste of new music since 2017’s highly acclaimed Haiku From Zero, which was named Double J Feature Album and rounded out the fifth full length from the bands’ prolific catalogue. Born from a bedroom recording project by Whitford, and expanding to a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning, Cut Copy’s output has stood the test of time. Their unique sound and unencumbered taste has earned praise locally and globally, remixing numerous singles, performing on the likes of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and picking up nominations for several awards. 2008’s In Ghost Colours, featuring “Lights & Music” and “Hearts on Fire” received nominations for the ARIA Awards’ Best Dance/Electronic Album and Album of the Year at the J Awards, while 2011’s ARIA chart-topper Zonoscope was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album at the Grammy Awards and awarded Best Dance Release at the ARIA Awards.
Despite almost three years having passed since we have heard from the adored band, “Love Is All We Share” is a track that comes at the time we need it most.
Photo credit: Thomas Frimi
“Australian synth-pop juggernauts”
– SPIN
“ever-reliable… finely crafted catalog.”
– Stereogum
“…in the thick of prodigious extremes, the members of Cut Copy find their sweet spot.”
– NPR
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SHARE REMIX OF LATEST SINGLE
“LOVE IS ALL WE SHARE” (PATRICK HOLLAND REMIX)
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After making their comeback earlier this month, electronic music favorites, Cut Copy, are back today to share the Patrick Holland (aka Project Pablo) remix of “Love Is All We Share.”
Transporting audiences away from the original’s warm, ambient atmosphere, Patrick Holland arrives with a club-ready rendition of “Love Is All We Share,” repurposing the track’s sentiment into a body-moving yearning and the dance floor comfort that Cut Copy enthusiasts have been seeking worldwide. A stark contrast in tempo and pace, Holland expertly propels the re-imagination into the dance realm with tinges of welcome techno beats and layered production.
Based out of Montreal, Patrick Holland has released music over the years under a variety of aliases, most notably Project Pablo & Jump Source. While also running a string of labels, ASL Singles Club, SOBO and his own personal imprint Verdicchio Music Publishing, Holland recently released his highly anticipated debut EP, Simstin.
Dan Whitford on the remix: “I’ve been a fan of Patrick Holland’s work for a while now under his Project Pablo alias and now, emerging under his own name. When we received his remix of ‘Love is All We Share’ it felt like something special; Taking the emotive qualities of the original song and reshaping it as a euphoric house jam. It’s not easy finding a track that works seamlessly in a DJ set yet also still feels like an actual ’song’ that you could listen to at home, and I love that this remix feels right in either context.”
“Love Is All We Share” is the first taste of new music since 2017’s highly acclaimed Haiku From Zero, which was named Double J Feature Album and rounded out the fifth full length from the bands’ prolific catalogue. Born from a bedroom recording project by Whitford, and expanding to a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning, Cut Copy’s output has stood the test of time. Despite almost three years having passed since we last heard from the adored band, “Love Is All We Share” is a track that comes at a time we need it most. Now with a thumping remix from Patrick Holland to pick up the pace, Cut Copy fans can get the best of both worlds from the beloved act.
Photo credit: Thomas Frim
“Australian synth-pop juggernauts”
– SPIN
“ever-reliable… finely crafted catalog.”
– Stereogum
“…in the thick of prodigious extremes, the members of Cut Copy find their sweet spot.”
– NPR
BIO
Cut Copy is a GRAMMY® nominated, ARIA award-winning musical act with numerous festival-headling slots and over 1,000 sold-out headline shows spanning several continents to date.
Initially the bedroom recording project of Dan Whitford, Cut Copy evolved into a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning. The quartet’s studio albums include In Ghost Colours, which Pitchfork named as one of the best albums of 2008 and among the top albums of the 2000s, and 2011’s Zonoscope, which won two ARIA Awards and was nominated for a GRAMMY®. Their last album, 2017’s Haiku From Zero, represented the band at their most refined and efficiently emotive.
Cut Copy’s songs have been licensed for use in television, games and commercials, including FIFA 18, Chevrolet, Netflix, Amazon, and Levi’s® #LiveinLevis campaign. DJing and mixes have also been a big part of their identity – from the band’s famed Fabric mix, Fabriclive.29, to the 2014 Melbourne dance compilation, Oceans Apart. In addition to headlining massive sold-out shows, the band has gained prime slots at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Ultra, and Lollapalooza in the U.S.; Primavera in Spain, Pitchfork in Paris; Summer Sonic in Japan; and Big Day Out in Australia.
Cut Copy are Dan Whitford, Tim Hoey, Ben Browning and Mitchell Scott.
CUT COPY ANNOUNCE SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM
FREEZE, MELT
OUT FRIDAY, AUGUST 21
+ SHARE NEW SINGLE & VIDEO
“COLD WATER”
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Electronic favorites Cut Copy are back today to share their new single, “Cold Water.” Arriving alongside the track is the greatly anticipated announcement of the four-piece’s sixth studio album, Freeze, Melt, dropping on Friday, August 21.
Following their highly welcomed return in May with “Love Is All We Share” – a tribute to yearning for connection in the times we’re facing – “Cold Water” continues the beloved Australian export’s long-standing career that retains a fond danceability only Cut Copy can replicate between fans. Every part visceral, as implied, frontman Dan Whitford’s voice lifts and carries on top of stoic chiming machine melodies that lap and flow, echoing, “All I need is you”. A kicking beat taps through, as a rich ambience endures across the five-minute piece of elation that speaks to love in a climate of uncertainty.
Dan Whitford on the track: “After extensive touring on our last album, “Cold Water” was one of the first new songs to appear. I’d moved to Copenhagen and had been listening to a lot more ambient and instrumental electronic music and as a result “Cold Water” felt quite different to songs we’d made in the past. It was less dance, but more atmospheric. Also the subject matter explores love in today’s context, where the climate and fate of the planet are becoming increasingly uncertain. Once we’d finished it, it felt like we’d placed a marker in the ground, guiding us in a new musical direction.”
The accompanying music video was made by American contemporary artist, Takeshi Murata, who sheds light imagery, saying it’s, “An open window and the midnight sun-lit ocean: These suggest a shifting in the calm. A late-night anxiety and hypnotizing tension between states of consciousness and dream.”
The single is the second to drop from Cut Copy’s forthcoming album, Freeze, Melt, which will be released on Friday, August 21, nineteen years into their prolific career. The body of work showcases an expansion while maintaining a legacy unmatched in Australian music since their inception. Written during an especially cold Scandinavian winter when Whitford decamped to Copenhagen, the collection takes an evocative turn, finding slowed meaning and influence from the emotional manipulations that feed into their work but have never taken centre stage, ultimately shaping a headier journey inward while lyrically exploring love in strange times.
After returning to Australia and being joined by his bandmates at Melbourne’s Park Orchard Studios to enhance and complete the recording, the record’s sense of place was further enhanced by the mixing contribution of Swedish legend Christoffer Berg (Robyn, The Knife), finishing the record in Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg. The Neve console they used was also used by Bowie/Eno/Visconti to make Lodger, and was also used by Queen, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, AC/DC, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder and Jonny Cash. The result of finalizing the record at Svenska Studios is a treat for the mind as well as the body.
Born from a bedroom recording project by Whitford and expanding to a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning, Cut Copy’s output has stood the test of time. Their unique sound and unencumbered taste have earned praise locally and globally, performing on the likes of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and picking up nominations for several awards. 2008’s In Ghost Colours, featuring “Lights & Music” and “Hearts on Fire” received nominations for the ARIA Awards‘ Best Dance/Electronic Album and Album of the Year at the J Awards, while 2011’s ARIA chart-topper Zonoscope was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album at the Grammy Awards and awarded Best Dance Release at the ARIA Awards.
Their strength is also evidenced by their powerful live shows, which have graced the stages at Coachella, Primavera Sound, and countless other global marquee festivals. Their secret power – being able to convert crowds of thousands into a unified, joyous dancing whole. When you add over a thousand sold-out headline shows over five continents to the mix, you can just about begin to understand their appeal, instantly apparent the minute you step foot inside a Cut Copy concert.
Freeze, Melt is the band’s sixth LP, and their first full-length release since 2017’s renowned, Double J Feature Album Haiku From Zero. The second chapter of the acclaimed act’s reemergence in 2020, “Cold Water,” delivers a warm-hearted sentiment that Cut Copy enthusiasts are bound to adore.
“Australian synth-pop juggernauts”
– SPIN
“ever-reliable… finely crafted catalog.”
– Stereogum
“…in the thick of prodigious extremes, the members of Cut Copy find their sweet spot.”
– NPR
FREEZE, MELT TRACKLIST
1. Cold Water
2. Like Breaking Glass
3. Love Is All We Share
4. Stop, Horizon
5. Running In The Grass
6. A Perfect Day
7. Rain
8. In Transit
BIO
Cut Copy is a GRAMMY® nominated, ARIA award-winning musical act with numerous festival-headling slots and over 1,000 sold-out headline shows spanning several continents to date.
Initially the bedroom recording project of Dan Whitford, Cut Copy evolved into a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning. The quartet’s studio albums include In Ghost Colours, which Pitchfork named as one of the best albums of 2008 and among the top albums of the 2000s, and 2011’s Zonoscope, which won two ARIA Awards and was nominated for a GRAMMY®. Their last album, 2017’s Haiku From Zero, represented the band at their most refined and efficiently emotive.
Cut Copy’s songs have been licensed for use in television, games and commercials, including FIFA 18, Chevrolet, Netflix, Amazon, and Levi’s® #LiveinLevis campaign. DJing and mixes have also been a big part of their identity – from the band’s famed Fabric mix, Fabriclive.29, to the 2014 Melbourne dance compilation, Oceans Apart. In addition to headlining massive sold-out shows, the band has gained prime slots at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Ultra, and Lollapalooza in the U.S.; Primavera in Spain, Pitchfork in Paris; Summer Sonic in Japan; and Big Day Out in Australia.
Cut Copy are Dan Whitford, Tim Hoey, Ben Browning and Mitchell Scott.
CUT COPY SHARE
“COLD WATER [LINDSTRØM & PRINS THOMAS REMIX]”
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SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM
FREEZE, MELT
OUT FRIDAY, AUGUST 21
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Electronic favorites Cut Copy team up with Norwegian producers, Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas to give new shape to their latest single. Today, they share “Cold Water [Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix],” out now via Cutters Records / The Orchard. The electro, prog-infused remix stretches the song to slowly become more and more psychedelic, adding a dynamism that breathes new life into the single. The visualizer to accompany the remix was made by Cut Copy’s own Ben Browning.
Discussing the new remix, Ben Browning says, “We’ve been long-time fans of Norwegian space disco legends Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas and are thrilled they were able to come together to produce this remix of “Cold Water.” Their uptempo cosmic reimagining of the song perfectly combines their signature sound with that of our original.”
Following their highly welcomed return in May with “Love Is All We Share” – a tribute to yearning for connection in the times we’re facing, “Cold Water” continues the beloved Australian export’s long-standing career that retains a fond danceability only Cut Copy can replicate between fans. Every part visceral, as implied, frontman Dan Whitford’s voice lifts and carries on top of stoic chiming machine melodies that lap and flow, echoing, “All I need is you.” A kicking beat taps through, as a rich ambience endures across the five-minute piece of elation that speaks to love in a climate of uncertainty.
“Cold Water” is the second to drop from Cut Copy’s forthcoming album, Freeze, Melt, which will be released on Friday, August 21, nineteen years into their prolific career. The body of work showcases an expansion while maintaining a legacy unmatched in Australian music since their inception. Written during an especially cold Scandinavian winter when Whitford decamped to Copenhagen, the collection takes an evocative turn, finding slowed meaning and influence from the emotional manipulations that feed into their work but have never taken centre stage, ultimately shaping a headier journey inward while lyrically exploring love in strange times.
After returning to Australia and being joined by his bandmates at Melbourne’s Park Orchard Studios to enhance and complete the recording, the record’s sense of place was further enhanced by the mixing contribution of Swedish legend Christoffer Berg (Robyn, The Knife), finishing the record in Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg. The Neve console they used was also used by Bowie/Eno/Visconti to make Lodger, and was also used by Queen, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, AC/DC, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder and Jonny Cash. The result of finalizing the record at Svenska Studios is a treat for the mind as well as the body.
Born from a bedroom recording project by Whitford and expanding to a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning, Cut Copy’s output has stood the test of time. Their unique sound and unencumbered taste have earned praise locally and globally, performing on the likes of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and picking up nominations for several awards. 2008’s In Ghost Colours, featuring “Lights & Music” and “Hearts on Fire” received nominations for the ARIA Awards‘ Best Dance/Electronic Album and Album of the Year at the J Awards, while 2011’s ARIA chart-topper Zonoscope was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album at the Grammy Awards and awarded Best Dance Release at the ARIA Awards.
Their strength is also evidenced by their powerful live shows, which have graced the stages at Coachella, Primavera Sound, and countless other global marquee festivals. Their secret power – being able to convert crowds of thousands into a unified, joyous dancing whole. When you add over a thousand sold-out headline shows over five continents to the mix, you can just about begin to understand their appeal, instantly apparent the minute you step foot inside a Cut Copy concert.
Freeze, Melt is the band’s sixth LP, and their first full-length release since 2017’s renowned, Double J Feature Album Haiku From Zero. The second chapter of the acclaimed act’s reemergence in 2020, “Cold Water,” delivers a warm-hearted sentiment that Cut Copy enthusiasts are bound to adore.
Photo credit: Tamar Levine (@tamarlevine)
Download hi-res photo HERE
“Australian synth-pop juggernauts”
– SPIN
“ever-reliable… finely crafted catalog.”
– Stereogum
“…in the thick of prodigious extremes, the members of Cut Copy find their sweet spot.”
– NPR
FREEZE, MELT TRACKLIST
1. Cold Water
2. Like Breaking Glass
3. Love Is All We Share
4. Stop, Horizon
5. Running In The Grass
6. A Perfect Day
7. Rain
8. In Transit
Download hi-res album artwork HERE
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CUT COPY SHARE NEW SINGLE
“LIKE BREAKING GLASS”
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+ ANNOUNCE 2021 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
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SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM
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Beloved Australian electronic act, Cut Copy return with their third single for 2020, “Like Breaking Glass,” out today via Cutters Records/The Orchard. The track is taken from the four-piece’s greatly anticipated sixth studio album, Freeze, Melt, to be released on Friday, August 21.
“Like Breaking Glass” summons the quintessential Cut Copy sound from the vault, with high-end sonics and a reverb-laced backbeat upping the mood, while Dan Whitford’s unmistakable vocals conduct a choir of assorted textures, unsuspecting at every turn. Rising and falling vectors tear through warm synth-work and dance-tingling beats, mimicking sentiments behind the physicality of deep love and a heartbreak’s violent rhythms through the body.
Dan Whitford says of the single: “In the beginning ‘Like Breaking Glass’ started out as a completely different track. Before one weekend I was mucking around in the studio with just a drum beat and an acid bassline. I never managed to finish it, but when I came back to it the next week there was something about that beat that felt compelling, so I started writing a song over the top of it. It is about the conflicted feelings of a relationship that has begun to unravel. Where sometimes against all logic, you discover that affections run deep just as a break up becomes inevitable. It was also one of my favourite songs working in the studio with the band when we crafted the middle section of the song comprising of weird delay effects, off-beat drum hits and metallic clangs where Mitchell was throwing a box of metal objects around the room, and we stood there recording him.”
Cut Copy’s forthcoming sixth album, Freeze, Melt, will feature “Like Breaking Glass” and the act’s previous two singles “Love Is All We Share” and “Cold Water,” as recently premiered on Double J. The body of work showcases an expansion yet refining in their sound over the past three years while maintaining a legacy unmatched in Australian music since their inception. Written during an especially cold European winter, the collection takes an evocative turn finding slowed meaning and influence from emotional manipulations that feed into their work but have never taken center stage, ultimately shaping a headier journey inward while lyrically exploring love in strange times. A treat for the mind, as well as the body.
Earlier this week, Cut Copy announced their first shows in support of Freeze, Melt to come in 2021. Traveling to Porto, Lisbon, Amsterdam, London and Dublin, European fans can now be among the first Cut Copy fans worldwide to catch the beloved act on stage in March/April 2021. Pre-sale is now open, with GA on sale from 7pm AEST this Friday, August 7.
After returning to Australia and being joined by his bandmates at Melbourne’s Park Orchard Studios to enhance and complete the recording, the record’s sense of place was further enhanced by the mixing contribution of Swedish legend Christoffer Berg (Robyn, The Knife), finishing the record in Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg. The Neve console they used was also used by Bowie/Eno/Visconti to make Lodger, and was also used by Queen, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, AC/DC, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder and Jonny Cash. The result of finalizing the record at Svenska Studios is a treat for the mind as well as the body.
Born from a bedroom recording project by Whitford and expanding to a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning, Cut Copy’s output has stood the test of time. Their unique sound and unencumbered taste have earned praise locally and globally, performing on the likes of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and picking up nominations for several awards. 2008’s In Ghost Colours, featuring “Lights & Music” and “Hearts on Fire” received nominations for the ARIA Awards‘ Best Dance/Electronic Album and Album of the Year at the J Awards, while 2011’s ARIA chart-topper Zonoscope was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album at the Grammy Awards and awarded Best Dance Release at the ARIA Awards.
Their strength is also evidenced by their powerful live shows, which have graced the stages at Coachella, Primavera Sound, and countless other global marquee festivals. Their secret power – being able to convert crowds of thousands into a unified, joyous dancing whole. When you add over a thousand sold-out headline shows over five continents to the mix, you can just about begin to understand their appeal, instantly apparent the minute you step foot inside a Cut Copy concert.
Perfectly molding with recent singles “Love Is All We Share” and “Cold Water”, plus their respective club-ready remixes from the likes of Patrick Holland (aka Project Pablo) and Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, today’s single breathes the quintessential Cut Copy sound. Brimming with vibrancy and the intricate production they know best, “Like Breaking Glass” lends another taste of a most highly-anticipated album to come in Freeze, Melt. Cut Copy fans, get ready.
Photo credit: Tamar Levine (@tamarlevine)
Download hi-res photo HERE
CUT COPY 2021 TOUR DATES
TICKET INFO HERE \ PRE-SALE HERE
Tuesday, March 23 – Hard Club, Porto
Wednesday, March 24 – Coliseum, Lisbon
Tuesday, March 30 – Melkweg, Amsterdam
Wednesday, March 31 – Roundhouse, London
Friday, April 2 – Whelan’s, Dublin
“Australian synth-pop juggernauts”
– SPIN
“ever-reliable… finely crafted catalog.”
– Stereogum
“…in the thick of prodigious extremes, the members of Cut Copy find their sweet spot.”
– NPR
FREEZE, MELT TRACKLIST
1. Cold Water
2. Like Breaking Glass
3. Love Is All We Share
4. Stop, Horizon
5. Running In The Grass
6. A Perfect Day
7. Rain
8. In Transit
Download hi-res album artwork HERE
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FREEZE, MELT
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WATCH & SHARE OFFICIAL VIDEOS FOR EACH TRACK ON THE LP:
CUT COPY – “LIKE BREAKING GLASS”
CUT COPY – “LOVE IS ALL WE SHARE”
CUT COPY – “RUNNING IN THE GRASS”
GRAMMY-nominated, ARIA award-winning Australian electronic act Cut Copy, share their highly anticipated sixth studio album, Freeze, Melt, today via Cutters Records & The Orchard. The four-piece, Melbourne-natives take an inward emotional turn from their prolific catalog with the record, refocusing on the electronic pastures that have lurked in their periphery while re-imagining their body-moving signature.
If Cut Copy’s previous album Haiku From Zero represents their most refined and emotive project to date, then Freeze, Melt further builds on this by way of their 2016 January Tape, embodying an extended electronic mediation. Stepping into headier realms whilst lyrically exploring love in solitude, the genesis of Freeze, Melt was born from the sub-zero winter in Denmark of 2018 where Dan Whitford was based. Inspired by a monochromatic palette, a timeless feel and painterly abstraction during time abroad, the band regrouped at Melbourne’s Park Orchard Studios to record the LP ensconced once again by forest and native birds. They completed the loop and inscribed Scandinavia into the album’s DNA by returning it to Gothenburg’s Christoffer Berg (The Knife) to be mixed.
The LP begins with “Cold Water” and a danceability only Cut Copy can replicate, as frontman Dan Whitford’s voice lifts and carries on top of stoic chiming machine melodies that lap and flow, echoing, “All I need is you.” Summoning the quintessential Cut Copy sound, their latest release “Like Breaking Glass” ups the mood with high-end sonics, warm synth-work and dance-tingling beats, before 2020 returning single “Love Is All We Share” breathes the universal truth through ambient textures, yearning to connect in solitude.
“Stop, Horizon” next paints a winter in Denmark with sprinkles of acoustic sequences akin to snowflakes falling in a sensory-rich soundscape, subtly transitioning from surrealism to low-fi funk via psychedelic-tinged vocals. Uplifting from start to finish, latest single “Running In The Grass” is spearheaded by Whitford’s words in hand with a programmatic instrumental and punchy beat. Alongside the single is another stunning visual from the band’s ongoing collaboration with acclaimed artist Takeshi Murata, bringing the track’s sonic identity into the visual realm, before the album moves into “A Perfect Day” where house-esque kick propels forward while the synth pulsates beneath, culminating in a groove-heavy breakdown. Following, “Rain” conjures a rising instrumental with atmospheric sounds, each with their own narrative, building anticipation throughout the track releasing it with Whitford’s thunderous vocals and emotive strings lines. Closing out the album is “In Transit,” a solemn outro, where bleeding synth lines transmute from plodding melodies, and merge with naturalistic acoustic strings.
Speaking on the album, Dan Whitford says: “It’s the most electronic album we’ve made, but also the least ‘dance’. In the past when we were in the studio we were striving to move people on the dancefloor, but in this case it was all about trying to move people in more of an emotional way.”
On the release today, he says:
“It’s always a special moment when we finally get to share our music with you guys. Making this album has been a slow evolution, from starting to write songs in Copenhagen to collaborating long-distance with bandmates in New York and San Francisco, to finally recording all together in a beautiful forest studio in Park Orchards near Melbourne, to mixing the songs in Sweden and finally getting the mastered album back. It’s been a real journey, and now we finally get to share Freeze, Melt with you!
Freeze, Melt is our 6th studio album (which in itself is kind of hard to believe!?) and we felt like we wanted to explore taking a slightly different direction this time; Taking our sound into a new place and focusing less on traditional songs and more into creating different atmospheres and moods. It’s the kind of music that people can dive into, disappear for a while, and emerge 40 minutes later. Some of you might be familiar with our January Tape release from a few years back where Tim and I spent a week making instrumental soundscapes and long jams and released it on limited edition cassette. I think this album feels like a logical progression from that release, except with the whole band working on this one (and spending longer than a week obviously!)
When I started writing songs for Freeze, Melt, I had just moved to Copenhagen and was finding my feet in a place where I didn’t really know anyone or speak the language. I think the songs were part of a process of working through that feeling of isolation and unfamiliarity. It was really a personal thing at the time, but strangely now the whole world has been experiencing isolation and disconnection for very different reasons. Hopefully, this music means something to personal to you guys as much as it meant something personal to me in writing it. It’s been a labour of love for a good year and a half now, so we really hope you enjoy listening to it!”
Recently, Cut Copy announced their first shows in support of Freeze, Melt to come in 2021. Traveling to Porto, Lisbon, Amsterdam, London and Dublin, European fans can now be among the first Cut Copy fans worldwide to catch the beloved act on stage in March/April 2021. Pre-sale is now open, with GA on sale now.
After returning to Australia and being joined by his bandmates at Melbourne’s Park Orchard Studios to enhance and complete the recording, the record’s sense of place was further enhanced by the mixing contribution of Swedish legend Christoffer Berg (Robyn, The Knife), finishing the record in Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg. The Neve console they used was also used by Bowie/Eno/Visconti to make Lodger, and was also used by Queen, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, AC/DC, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder and Jonny Cash. The result of finalizing the record at Svenska Studios is a treat for the mind as well as the body.
Freeze, Melt is Cut Copy’s first full-length release since their 2017 highly acclaimed Haiku From Zero. Born from a bedroom recording project by Dan Whitford, and expanding to a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning, Cut Copy’s discography has endured the test of time with a knack for simultaneously expanding their sound while refining it. Their renowned live show has graced sold-out headline stages across five continents, major U.S TV shows Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and primetime slots at prestigious festivals Coachella, Ultra, Lollapalooza, Primavera, Pitchfork, Summer Sonic and Big Day Out.
Their unique sound and unencumbered tastes have earned the band praise both at home and abroad, picking up multiple nominations across a nineteen-year career. 2011’s ARIA chart-topper Zonoscope was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards, and awarded Best Dance Release at the ARIA Awards. 2008’s In Ghost Colours, featuring “Lights & Music” and “Hearts on Fire” received nominations for the ARIA Awards’ Best Dance/Electronic Album and Album of the Year at the J Awards. The four-piece act have also seen their songs licensed for use in television, games and commercial, including FIFA 18, Chevrolet, Netflix, Amazon and Levi’s #LiveinLevis campaign.
Freeze, Melt arrives today as the sixth LP from the esteemed act, presenting a full-bodied experience into new sound arenas while maintaining foundations of the prolific legacy that has influenced a generation. With an enduring name spanning from the golden era of electronic music to their reemergence today, tune in to new inspirations and evocations from the country’s most beloved music exports on Freeze, Melt now.
Photo credit: Tamar Levine (@tamarlevine)
Download hi-res photo HERE
CUT COPY 2021 TOUR DATES
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Tuesday, March 23 – Hard Club, Porto
Wednesday, March 24 – Coliseum, Lisbon
Tuesday, March 30 – Melkweg, Amsterdam
Wednesday, March 31 – Roundhouse, London
Friday, April 2 – Whelan’s, Dublin
“Australian synth-pop juggernauts”
– SPIN
“ever-reliable… finely crafted catalog.”
– Stereogum
“…in the thick of prodigious extremes, the members of Cut Copy find their sweet spot.”
– NPR
Download hi-res album artwork HERE
FREEZE, MELT TRACKLIST
1. Cold Water
2. Like Breaking Glass
3. Love Is All We Share
4. Stop, Horizon
5. Running In The Grass
6. A Perfect Day
7. Rain
8. In Transit
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GRAMMY-nominated, ARIA award-winning Australian electronic act Cut Copy, team up with Jacques Lu Cont, AKA English electronic music artist, DJ, songwriter, and record producer Stuart Price (known for his work with Madonna, Dua Lipa, The Killers, New Order, Kylie Minogue, Missy Elliott and many more), on a brand new remix for “Like Breaking Glass.” The crisp, clean “Like Breaking Glass (Jacques Lu Cont remix)“ has a pure pop sensibility, while keeping the danceability of the original, that ups the mood with high-end sonics, warm synth-work and body-tingling beats.
On the collaboration, frontman of Cut Copy Dan Whitford says, “Receiving a remix from Stuart Price (aka Jacques Lu Cont) is something that I probably never thought would happen. In the last fifteen years, his career has taken him outside of our world and into the realm of pop super producers working with multi-million selling artists. But early in his career, his music under the moniker Les Rythmes Digitales, Zoot Woman, and Paper Faces he was a real inspiration. LRD in particular gave me hope of turning tracks I’d made as a no-name bedroom producer with a couple of synths and sampler into something people might want to buy and dance to. The sounds and personality of his music was a real inspiration in an era dominated by generic funky house, and so it’s really such a unique honour to have him approach us to do work on this remix many years later.”
Recently, Cut Copy shared Part 2 of Making of Freeze, Melt via their YouTube. Shot by talented filmmaker and friend, Christopher Hill, the video arrives as the second behind the scenes look into the making of Freeze, Melt, uncovering the beginning writing and studio sessions. Bringing those initial studio sessions into the live domain, the band recently announced their first shows in support of the album to come in 2021. Traveling to Porto, Lisbon, Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, London and Dublin, making European fans among the first audiences to catch the latest release on stage in March/April 2021. Pre-sale is now open, with GA on sale now.
On August 21, 2020, Cut Copy shared their highly anticipated sixth studio album, Freeze, Melt, via Cutters Records & The Orchard. The four-piece, Melbourne-natives take an inward emotional turn from their prolific catalog with the record, refocusing on the electronic pastures that have lurked in their periphery while re-imagining their body-moving signature.
If Cut Copy’s previous album Haiku From Zero represents their most refined and emotive project to date, then Freeze, Melt further builds on this by way of their 2016 January Tape, embodying an extended electronic mediation. Stepping into headier realms whilst lyrically exploring love in solitude, the genesis of Freeze, Melt was born from the sub-zero winter in Denmark of 2018 where Dan Whitford was based. Inspired by a monochromatic palette, a timeless feel and painterly abstraction during time abroad, the band regrouped at Melbourne’s Park Orchard Studios to record the LP ensconced once again by forest and native birds. They completed the loop and inscribed Scandinavia into the album’s DNA by returning it to Gothenburg’s Christoffer Berg (The Knife) to be mixed.
Speaking on the album, Dan Whitford says: “It’s the most electronic album we’ve made, but also the least ‘dance’. In the past when we were in the studio we were striving to move people on the dancefloor, but in this case it was all about trying to move people in more of an emotional way.”
After returning to Australia and being joined by his bandmates at Melbourne’s Park Orchard Studios to enhance and complete the recording, the record’s sense of place was further enhanced by the mixing contribution of Swedish legend Christoffer Berg (Robyn, The Knife), finishing the record in Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg. The Neve console they used was also used by Bowie/Eno/Visconti to make Lodger, and was also used by Queen, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, AC/DC, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder and Jonny Cash. The result of finalizing the record at Svenska Studios is a treat for the mind as well as the body.
Freeze, Melt is Cut Copy’s first full-length release since their 2017 highly acclaimed Haiku From Zero. Born from a bedroom recording project by Dan Whitford, and expanding to a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning, Cut Copy’s discography has endured the test of time with a knack for simultaneously expanding their sound while refining it. Their renowned live show has graced sold-out headline stages across five continents, major U.S TV shows Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and primetime slots at prestigious festivals Coachella, Ultra, Lollapalooza, Primavera, Pitchfork, Summer Sonic and Big Day Out.
Their unique sound and unencumbered tastes have earned the band praise both at home and abroad, picking up multiple nominations across a nineteen-year career. 2011’s ARIA chart-topper Zonoscope was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards, and awarded Best Dance Release at the ARIA Awards. 2008’s In Ghost Colours, featuring “Lights & Music” and “Hearts on Fire” received nominations for the ARIA Awards’ Best Dance/Electronic Album and Album of the Year at the J Awards. The four-piece act have also seen their songs licensed for use in television, games and commercial, including FIFA 18, Chevrolet, Netflix, Amazon and Levi’s #LiveinLevis campaign.
Freeze, Melt arrives today as the sixth LP from the esteemed act, presenting a full-bodied experience into new sound arenas while maintaining foundations of the prolific legacy that has influenced a generation. With an enduring name spanning from the golden era of electronic music to their reemergence today, tune in to new inspirations and evocations from the country’s most beloved music exports on Freeze, Melt now.
Photo credit: Tamar Levine (@tamarlevine)
Download hi-res photo HERE
CUT COPY 2021 EU TOUR DATES
Tuesday, March 23 – Hard Club – Porto, Portugal
Wednesday, March 24 – Coliseum – Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday, March 25 – La Riviera – Madrid, Spain *
Friday, March 26 – Sala Moon – Valencia, Spain *
Saturday, March 27 – Sala Apolo – Barcelona, Spain *
Monday, March 29 – La Machine du Moulin Rouge – Paris, France*
Tuesday, March 30 – Melkweg – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wednesday, March 31 – Roundhouse – London, England
Friday, April 2 – Whelan’s – Dublin, Ireland
*Newly announced
“Australian synth-pop juggernauts”
– SPIN
“ever-reliable… finely crafted catalog.”
– Stereogum
“…in the thick of prodigious extremes, the members of Cut Copy find their sweet spot.”
– NPR
Download hi-res album artwork HERE
BIO
Cut Copy is a GRAMMY® nominated, ARIA award-winning musical act with numerous festival-headling slots and over 1,000 sold-out headline shows spanning several continents to date.
Initially the bedroom recording project of Dan Whitford, Cut Copy evolved into a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning. The quartet’s studio albums include In Ghost Colours, which Pitchfork named as one of the best albums of 2008 and among the top albums of the 2000s, and 2011’s Zonoscope, which won two ARIA Awards and was nominated for a GRAMMY®. Their last album, 2017’s Haiku From Zero, represented the band at their most refined and efficiently emotive.
Cut Copy’s songs have been licensed for use in television, games and commercials, including FIFA 18, Chevrolet, Netflix, Amazon, and Levi’s® #LiveinLevis campaign. DJing and mixes have also been a big part of their identity – from the band’s famed Fabric mix, Fabriclive.29, to the 2014 Melbourne dance compilation, Oceans Apart. In addition to headlining massive sold-out shows, the band has gained prime slots at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Ultra, and Lollapalooza in the U.S.; Primavera in Spain, Pitchfork in Paris; Summer Sonic in Japan; and Big Day Out in Australia.
Cut Copy are Dan Whitford, Tim Hoey, Ben Browning and Mitchell Scott.
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