Cut Copy Announce Box Set Chronicling Their First Decade

By Chris Todd

On February 4, 2022

In News , Reviews

Cut Copy

Announce Box Set Chronicling Their First Decade

Collected Works 2001-2011

Out Narch 8

Announce 2022 North American Tou

Collected Works 2001-2011 Pre-order:

https://cutcopy.lnk.to/Collected-Works-PreOrder

WATCH: Rare Cut Copy Bright Like Neon Love Documentary short

Cut Copy have announced the March 8th release of Collected Works 2001-2011, a vinyl box set chronicling the first decade of the group. The repressed records are in limited edition colors, and the box set features a 72-page zine curated by Cut Copy frontman Dan Whitford, as well as a holographic box set cover. In their first ten years, Cut Copy exploded from a one man bedroom project to a thunderously explosive live band that sells out tours across the globe and is an international festival staple. The box set also documents Cut Copy’s fearless experimentation that has blurred the line between a rock group and dance music since their inception and their explorations with dub, Afrobeat, 70s Southern California harmonies, and more. Along with early EPs, 1981 and I Thought of Numbers (previously unavailable on vinyl), Bright Like Neon Love, In Ghost Colors, and the GRAMMY nominated Zonoscope are all included.

Cut Copy have also announced a 2022 North American tour in celebration of the box set, full dates below.

The tour kicks off April 23rd in Colorado at the iconic Red Rocks for what is sure to be a monumental show and concludes in Pasadena on May 21st with their performance at the Just Like Heaven festival.

Dan Whitford shares, “For me, 2001-2011 feels like a special time period for Cut Copy. It charts the move from me first signing to a record label as a naive young kid who made music in my bedroom to a fully fledged band that forged its own musical fingerprint, created some globally loved albums and toured the world.

Within Cut Copy’s evolution, the arc of these first ten years felt like a special musical journey. For Tim, Mitchell, Ben and I, every tour was a new discovery and every record was a new development, each with its own very unique visual and musical identity. Sadly those early albums are long out of print (only available second hand at astronomical prices). So for this reason we decided it was time to create a vinyl box set covering the first ten years of Cut Copy.

I designed the artwork for the box as well as putting together a zine booklet that goes along with it, with old photos, setlists, notes and other memorabilia from the early days. We also compiled a bonus disc containing rare early releases ‘I Thought of Numbers’ and ‘1981.’

Hopefully the box is a special treat for our longtime fans and also new ones wanting to discover this era of our music for the first time.”

(page from box set zine, press images of zine available here)

In the process of digging through their archive to put the box set together, the group unearthed a 2004 documentary that shines a little neon light on the band and the making of their stellar debut album, Bright Like Neon Love. The documentary has never been widely available and was just rediscovered. Directed by Kiku Ohe, it was filmed in Sydney and Melbourne in 2004 and shows the band rehearsing, hanging out, performing an early live show at Sydney’s Club 77, DJing at an afterparty at now defunct Kings Cross club Moulin Rouge and features band interview son the roof of Dan’s design studio. Though not a part of the box set, the band is sharing the documentary in celebration of the release.