Run To The Lights Of The City

Cut Copy’s latest CD, “In Ghost Colours,” is one of the best albums I have heard this year. Not only are the songs filled with bouncy electronic beats, but the flow of the whole CD from track to track is such a smooth transition that after hearing it you will feel like you were just smooth talked into donating your life savings to Unicef. You feel so good about it, but you’re not really sure why?

Some of you will recognize “Feel the Love” from the TV commercial for Virgin Mobile Canada. This song was huge this year and brought Cut Copy to a sold out show on October 9th at the Commodore Ballroom with “The Presets” as the opening band. I bought tickets to this show as soon as they were available because a wicked lineup like that does not come along often enough. It was no surprise that the show fucking rocked, and people were eating it up like they had been fasting for years for something of this caliber to finally come along.

My favourite track on the album is “Strangers in the Wind” which has a reminiscent "Don't Fear The Reaper" feel to it for me, until the electronic chorus comes in and it almost sounds like a completely different song. In any case this track makes me want to put a sweater on, get my ass outside on a crisp Autumn day and score myself one of those fancy lattes sans dairy.

“So Haunted” begins with guitars that remind me of something off the Pixies “Doolittle” album, but as the song progresses the chorus kicks in and you feel like you are caught somewhere between a seventies-era sing along and a new wave pop show, and somehow it all works.



“Hearts on Fire” sounds like a track that was rejected by the producers of “Night at the Roxbury” so you feel less guilty about actually liking the song, especially since it has less head bobbing tendencies to it. This song has a retro early 90’s feel to it, without being overly cheesy, and still keeps the pace and flow of the CD, which seems to subtly encompass many different eras and styles of music.

If you couldn’t make it to the sold out show in October, do yourself one favour before the year is over and pick up this damn CD, if you download it, pay for it, because unlike many one hit wonders, this CD actually pays for itself. You are going to listen to “In Ghost Colours” so many times it’s going to get scratched to shit, and then I will give you permission to download it for free.