Cut Copy's new album Zonoscape is apparently the first truly buzzworthy, highly anticipated album or 2k11. It seems like popular internet music rating service Pitchfork Media gave Cut Copy a score of 8.6 on the album. Many have mixed emotions on this album, because it is 'aiiite', but 'not really the fun electro post-bloghouse' that we were expecting. Sounded sorta like a weird trance/new wave album.

Is this album a 'solid start' to 2k11, or are we basically re-living 2k10?What would u rate this album?

Basically, they were just like, "yeah cut copy is good. blah blah. This album is good. Blee Bloo. It is summer in Australia, so Australians probably rlly like it. We'll like it when the American snow melts away and we can partie hard 2 it.."

Cut Copy are Australian, and it's summer in Australia right now. So if it feels a little weird listening to an album of euphoric, starry-eyed dance-rock on earbuds while you're scraping snow-grit off your windshield, keep in mind: Somewhere in the world, someone is probably road-tripping to a swimming hole with this album playing, or eating a popsicle, or playing catch with their dogs while it blasts out of a car stereo or nearby boombox. By the time summer arrives for those of us in the northern hemisphere, we'll know these songs by heart and be able to sing along loudly.

Do yall <3 eating popsicles at the ole swimmin hole and listening 2 buzzbands?
Do u buy into the theory that Cut Copy's Zonoscape will 'make more sense' when we can throw down a sick spring break/summer/sxsw partie?
Do MP3s sound better while u r eating a popsicle?

Has every electro indie band been inspired by Cut Copy? Has any1 topped Cut Copy as 'the #1 electro band in indie'? Here is a paragraph where they call this album Cut Copy's version of OK Computer [via the radioheads].

Back when this group released 2004's Bright Like Neon Love, the idea of backing dazed, introverted indie pop with a utopian house thump was still relatively novel. And though that sound has since inspired legions of followers and copycats, still no one does it quite like Cut Copy themselves. 2008's steamrolling In Ghost Colours was an album of anthems; tracks like "Hearts on Fire" and "Lights and Music" were transcendent pop that stuck in heads for days. But Zonoscope is something different. It's an album-album that puts serious work into movements and transitions, and it works best when you hear it all in one chunk. That doesn't mean it's Cut Copy's OK Computer; it just means that the group has put more work into building a vast, rolling landscape rather than a series of peaks.

Do u appreciate this album 'as a whole' or was it just kinda a letdown?
Do u expect more out of Cut Copy?
Do u hope the snow melts away?

Here is a part where they say that Cut Copy is no longer dance rock.

Compared to the last two albums, Zonoscope has precious little guitar crunch, which makes it hard to even call Cut Copy a dance-rock band anymore. And that's for the best-- not just because that combination seems like a less thrilling prospect in 2011 than perhaps it once did, but also because Cut Copy have the architecture of dance music down perfectly and the confidence to execute the genre's moves with absolute precision. Even in the dead of winter, Zonoscope does its job beautifully. Imagine how it'll sound when you don't have to layer up to go outside.

Have yall ever experienced music that sounded better when the weather was different?
Does the winter make u sad + less available 2 partie?
Should all 'electro albums' be released in the American summer?
Do buzzbands sound more meaningful in the winter?
Do u hope the snow melts soon?

Does 'the weather' really change the mood of the human spirit, or is that all 'bullshit'?

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