Product Description

Cut Copy return with the release of their second album 'In Ghost Colours', which follows their highly acclaimed 2004 debut 'Bright Like Neon Love'. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, the band produce a sound the blends indie rock and 60s psychedelia with 80s synths and electronics to superb effect.There is a haunting undertone to the album, with frontman Dan Whitford showing a more expressive and involving vocal style then on the previous record. Singles include 'Lights AndMusic'.

Track Listing

1. Feel The Love
2. Out There On The Ice
3. Lights & Music
4. We Fight For Diamonds
5. Unforgettable Season
6. Midnight Runner
7. So Haunted
8. Voice In Quartz
9. Hearts On Fire
10. Far Away
11. Silver Thoughts
12. Strangers In The Wind
13. Visions
14. Nobody Lost, Nobody Found
15. Eternity One Night Only
16. Cold Youth

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2471 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 55 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Far more fun than the eighties actually were at the time, the second album from Melbourne’s Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours, is one of the slickest and most varied reinterpretations of the era to appear in the last five years. Selective nostalgia means that every sound from the past is open to reappraisal and Cut Copy have moved on from the sometimes slavish devotion to New Order that dominated their first album, 2004’s enjoyably familiar Bright Like Neon Love. By comparison In Ghost Colours is nearer to the dense pop of Electronic, Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner’s often overlooked collaboration, especially the brash, acoustic guitar driven opener "Feel The Love" and the brash "Lights and Music". But on tunes like the lush "Hearts On Fire" and the more abrasive "So Haunted", Dan Whitford and crew also nod to the experimental pop of the Cure and Depeche Mode and the now familiar sonic attack that My Bloody Valentine originated (and Snow Patrol eventually turned into pop). Less obviously, late period ELO, increasingly adored by studio head, prove to be an influence. The producer here is none other than DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy, and though Cut Copy are far from the bittersweet hedonism of his other recent clients Hercules And Love Affair, In Ghost Colours works both as contemporary dance-rock and, edited without gaps, as a complete album.--Steve Jelbert

Customer Reviews

Awesome Aussies Amaze
This is without doubt my album of the year. It's infectious hooks mean that you cannot help but sing everytime you listen to it. My favourite songs are probably Unforgettable Season, Feel The Love, and Far Away. If you like this you should definitely check out The Presets - Apocalypso.Its a lot more dancy but is also full of hooks and is another great album and they're also from Australia. Australian music is obviously in a good place right now.

Paste (most tracks) /// Delete (the odd one)
This is like a better-executed version of The Beauty Room's Beyond An Infinite (AOR LP by Detroit techno Artist Kirk Degiorgio for those who don't know). It's very much an 80s concept which at times veers a wee bit too much towards pastiche and in places uncomfortably close to Daft Punk's Discovery (e.g. C///C's homage to "Digital Love" on "So Haunted"). However it harks back to the days when pop music could be both popular and credible. Think of OMD, Japan, Crowded House and Duran Duran mixed into one. Curiously the LP has an underproduced feel - possibly a deliberate reference to one of the band's stated influences Tangerine Dream, except that the lo-fi sound of their music was due to the technological limitations of the time. It's not all retro though, the decision to bring in Tim Goldsworthy to produce the LP gives it a fresh and unpretentious feel that brings it back into the 21st.

During the 80s I found that a lot of the albums I bought didn't really stand repeated play and this one suffers the same fate to an extent. That said there are goosebump-enducing moments on here not experienced since the days of New Order (check "Out There on the Ice"). I've been playing this all summer and what it lacks in depth it makes up for in entertainment value.

Oh its good........................its really good
Refreshingly brilliant music and my best album of the decade so far - buy it , download it, steal it if you have to , a breath of fresh air from the norm - you might also like M83 if you like this!