When this record’s fourth single, Still See Love, dropped, we were enamoured just a few seconds in – that playful, loose, descending verse melody!
Wistful yet danceable, it’s classic Cut Copy. “I still see love in your heart/ No matter what you do…” – Dan Whitford’s vocals are understated, yet affecting. Lyrics are never schmaltzy, but each carefully chosen word aims straight for the heart.
There’s also something reassuringly familiar about Solid, which captures everything Cut Copy nail: intrigue, percolating beats, synth wonderment and caressing vocals: “Building a bridge to a place unknown/ Holding up walls and the cracks they show…”
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Kate Bollinger’s dreamy vocal contribution joins the boppy Belong To You quite late in the piece – a sweet surprise. Former The Triffids member ‘Evil’ Graham Lee plays lap steel on this track as well. The swaying When This Is Over, featuring sighing synths, is further elevated by a children’s choir.
Children Of Fairlight oscillates between a grab-bag of percussive pops – shaker, woodblock, triangle. And how does a chipmunk choir punctuated by xylophone sound so good!?
The pulsing Gravity kicks off like a guided dancefloor meditation – “Deeper you go, deeper/ In silence/ In silence” – before what sounds like a sampled lecture gives the trippers some profound food for thought: “…Dreaming can happen at any time.”
Peaking with intergalactic pew-pews just begging for an accompanying laser show, More Alive enters the rave cave – what we’d do to experience this one in Shed 14! Then, after one last dance, closer Find A Place Among The Stars offers a soft landing.
LABEL: CUTTERS RECORDS/THE ORCHARD
RELEASE: OUT NOW
