Cut Copy Announce Seventh Album, Share New Single ‘When This Is Over’
Moments arrives Friday 5 September via Cutters Records / The Orchard.
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After teasing fans with new single ‘Solid’ and B-side ‘A Decade Long Sunset’ earlier this year, synth-pop greats Cut Copy have today announced the release of their much-anticipated seventh studio album, Moments.
Arriving Friday 5 September via Cutters Records / The Orchard (pre-order/pre-save here), Moments is Cut Copy’s first album since 2020’s Freeze, Melt.
To coincide with the announcement, Cut Copy have also shared new single, ‘When This Is Over’. A tropical four and a half minutes of glimmering electric guitars, bouncing synths and head nodding percussion, the track includes Romsey Candlebark School’s children’s choir singing the bridge as conducted by Georgia Brook and recorded by Architecture in Helsinki’s James Cecil.
Speaking on the single, founding member Dan Whitford says: “‘When This Is Over’ is one of those songs that instantly felt special as soon as it came into being. We had talked for years about the idea of making a song featuring a children’s choir, and after writing the first half of the song in my studio on synths and a drum machine, I drove from Melbourne into the country to a primary school where a friend was a music teacher and spent a day recording a choir idea that became the basis of the second half of the song.
“Suddenly with the addition of the children’s voices, the song had gone from a sketch into something magical. The song is about a relationship that has started to unravel. But also a bit more globally about trying to find empathy when parties are facing in seemingly opposite directions. Over the course of the song, the mood progresses from conflict to a sort of truce-like resolution. As humans sometimes it’s hard to find common ground when hurt runs deep, but as the song says, ‘we’re more the same than you’ll ever know’.”
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The brainchild of Whitford, Cut Copy evolved into a full-fledged band with the addition of guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott and bass player Ben Browning, releasing six albums across their almost 25 year career.
2008’s In Ghost Colours was a monster success, topping the ARIA Album Chart and spawning the hit singles ‘Lights & Music’ and ‘Hearts on Fire’. Cut Copy followed up with the equally as successful Zonoscope, which won Best Dance Release at the ARIA Awards and came in at #2 on the Billboard US Top Dance/Electronic Chart. The band’s most recent album, 2020’s Freeze, Melt, found Cut Copy refining their sound on an album that struggled commercially but was critically praised.
Ahead of the release of Moments, Cut Copy are performing three special live shows in September. The group will play a hometown show at the Forum in Melbourne on Thursday 11 September, before an appearance at Night At The Barracks at Manly’s North Head in Sydney on Friday 12 September, and a final gig at Brisbane’s Night At The Parkland on Saturday 13 September.
Moments by Cut Copy arrives Friday 5 September via Cutters Records / The Orchard. Pre-order/pre-save the album here.
