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Exclusive: Cut Copy to premiere Where I'm Going this Friday
15 July 2010
Melbourne electro-rock act Cut Copy will premiere the first taste of their as-yet-untitled third album this Friday morning.
New track Where I’m Going will be christened on Triple J’s Tom and Alex breakfast show at 7:40am and then offered as a free download from the band's official site if you join their mailing list.
Described as “the kind of track Brian Wilson would’ve written if he took ecstacy and hung out in ‘60s London instead of California”, the track features loping tribal drums, reverbed vocals, pulsing synth and joyous pop ‘woos’ and ‘yeahs’.
Speaking to TMN last week before the band set off overseas to tour, guitarist Tim Hoey told TMN the track was indicative of the new album “to a certain degree”.
“This song’s certainly not intended for the dancefloor at all - it’s probably the complete opposite,” he added. “It’s definitely the first thing we wanted people to hear. It’s more of a development in our sound. It’s quite chanty and kinda feels like one big chorus. I’ve kinda always loved songs that do that.”
Hoey confirmed the band had finished recording the follow-up to their chart-topping second record In Ghost Colours and it’s currently being mixed by Ben Allen (chosen for his work on Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavillion). The band wrote and recorded the album over 12 months in an old warehouse space on the outskirts of Melbourne.
“We had a pretty lo-fi studio set-up there and didn’t have heaps of expensive recording gear. We built these drum enclosures out of mattresses and used a lot of strange percussions or found objects like pots and pans and whatever we can get our hands on. There’s a bit more rhythmic and hypnotic feel to all the tracks.”
He also revealed the band - singer Dan Whitford, drummer Mitchell Scott and newly permanent bassist Ben Browning – were heavily influenced by the Fairlight CMI, one of the earliest synthesizers.
“We were really fascinated by it. It sounds archaic, but not in a real cool vintage synth way. It sounds kind of daggy. We start listening to a lot of records that used it – Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love, Grace Jones’ Slave to the Rhythm and a lot of Peter Gabriel and Todd Rundgren records.”
The album currently doesn’t have a title but it will “definitely be out in January” says Hoey.
The band will play their only Australian shows of 2010 on the Parklife tour this August/September and Hoey says fans can expect to hear a handful of new songs. After that, they’ll go into lockdown once more to finalise the record and fine-tune a brand new live show with a more “theatrical” slant for the new year.
“We’ve created a whole world for this record and we thought it’d be really great to make a show that reflected that, as opposed to just jumping around and telling other people to jump around.”
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