Free Your Mind (Deluxe Version)
Melbourne\'s Cut Copy came together in the early \'00s, when the rediscovery of \'80s electro and dance pop was in full flower. Yet one of the group\'s great strengths is the fact that it *is* a group, with a flesh-and-blood rhythm section—not just one person behind a bank of gear. The Aussie quartet\'s fourth album reinforces that notion, putting crucial human muscle behind the sparkling synth riffs. Sure, tunes like \"Footsteps\" are fueled by an Italo-disco-flavored, club-friendly feel. But it\'s Ben Browning\'s bass guitar lines that lend the greatest gravitas to the elegant synth-pop of \"In Memory Capsule,\" while Mitchell Scott\'s analog drum kit brings a bit of vital rock ballast to \"Dark Corners & Mountain Tops\" and the luminous, power ballad–esque \"Walking in the Sky.\" So while there\'s little on *Free Your Mind* that couldn\'t drive dancers to exhaustion, the album\'s essence is more than just momentum.
Australian electronic outfit Cut Copy never sounded like a band that had a problem getting to the point. On Free Your Mind, though, their most overtly fun and least dynamic music restates the obvious over and over again.
Australian electronic outfit Cut Copy never sounded like a band that had a problem getting to the point. On Free Your Mind, though, their most overtly fun and least dynamic music restates the obvious over and over again.
Cut Copy’s musical universe, full of ’80s radio hits that never were, seems like an alternate version of our own. Free Your Mind, the band’s fourth LP, enhances that universe in typical Cut Copy fashion: Beats land heavy and strong, keyboards and synths ring out like beacons of truth, and Dan Whitford’s feather-light…
Cut Copy’s musical universe, full of ’80s radio hits that never were, seems like an alternate version of our own. Free Your Mind, the band’s fourth LP, enhances that universe in typical Cut Copy fashion: Beats land heavy and strong, keyboards and synths ring out like beacons of truth, and Dan Whitford’s feather-light…
For those of us who remember with impassioned fondness, the first time we heard In Ghost Colours, Free Your Mind presents itself with an odd mixture of both validation and vague disappointment.
For those of us who remember with impassioned fondness, the first time we heard In Ghost Colours, Free Your Mind presents itself with an odd mixture of both validation and vague disappointment.
Cut Copy are masters of absorbing various influences and then expressing them naturally through their indie dance pop. With 2004's debut alb...
Cut Copy are masters of absorbing various influences and then expressing them naturally through their indie dance pop. With 2004's debut alb...
Fans of Cut Copy who are expecting more of the brilliant and addictive dance-pop they're known for will not be disappointed in their fourth album, Free Your Mind.
Fans of Cut Copy who are expecting more of the brilliant and addictive dance-pop they're known for will not be disappointed in their fourth album, Free Your Mind.
Album review: 'Free Your Mind', the latest LP from Australian dance outfit Cut Copy, earns itself a Clash seal of approval...
Album review: 'Free Your Mind', the latest LP from Australian dance outfit Cut Copy, earns itself a Clash seal of approval...
The development in album art from 2011's Zonoscope to 2013's Free Your Mind says something not only about the Amazonian world of pixelated covers that we...
The development in album art from 2011's Zonoscope to 2013's Free Your Mind says something not only about the Amazonian world of pixelated covers that we...
Cut Copy's homage to the 1988 summer of love is far too clear-eyed and straight-up to really capture the spirit of acid house, writes <strong>Paul MacInnes</strong>
Cut Copy's homage to the 1988 summer of love is far too clear-eyed and straight-up to really capture the spirit of acid house, writes <strong>Paul MacInnes</strong>