Cut Copy share new track ‘Black Rainbows’, first listen of new album ‘Haiku From Zero’ (Virgin EMI)
Cut Copy share new track, ‘Black Rainbows’New album – ‘Haiku from Zero’ – streaming now on NPRReleased September 22nd on Virgin EMI
‘Black Rainbows’, taken from Cut Copy’s forthcoming album, Haiku From Zero, is available today. Fans who pre-order the album will instantly receive “Black Rainbows” plus the singles “Standing in the Middle of the Field” and “Airborne.” NPR Music is also offering fans an exclusive “First Listen” to Haiku From Zero in the week leading up to its September 22 release. Stream the acclaimed forthcoming album in its entirety HERE through September 21.
Haiku From Zero – Cut Copy’s first proper studio album in nearly four years and first for Astralwerks/Virgin EMI – contains some of the catchiest songs the band has ever recorded, and also some of its most sonically adventurous. The follow-up to 2013’s Free Your Mind, Haiku From Zero was produced by Ben Allen (Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Neon Indian). Pitchfork praised “Standing in the Middle of the Field” as “a spirited bop with some sly pensive tension at its core…With it, Cut Copy reassert their ability to turn even moody introspection into floor-filler bliss.” Meanwhile“Airborne,” the album’s first single, was hailed by Stereogum as “a disco-pop odyssey that sounds like, well, soaring through the sky, before eventually blasting off into psychedelic bliss.” Noisey said, “it’s definitely a ‘match your steps to the tempo of the song as you walk down the street’ kind of jam.” Paste Magazine found the accompanying video – directed by Gerson Aguerri (The Vaccines, Breakbot) of the Barcelona-based production company CANADA – “wildly imaginative” and noted, “[it] follows frontman Dan Whitford as a trek for a late-night munch leads him down a surreal rabbit-hole filled with otherworldly characters and bizarre street views.” View the “Airborne” video HERE.
Initially a bedroom recording project by Whitford, Cut Copy evolved into a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning. The quartet’s studio albums include In Ghost Colours, which Pitchfork named as one of the best albums of 2008 and among the top albums of the 2000s, and 2011’s Zonoscope, which won two ARIA Awards and was nominated for a GRAMMY. DJing and mixes have also been a big part of Cut Copy’s identity – from the band’s famed Fabric mix, Fabriclive.29, to the 2014 Melbourne dance compilation, Oceans Apart. In addition to headlining massive sold-out shows, the band has gained prime slots at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Ultra and Lollapalooza in the U.S.; Primavera in Spain, Pitchfork in Paris; Summer Sonic in Japan; and Big Day Out in Australia.
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LISTEN to ‘Black Rainbows’
WATCH the ‘Airborne’ video