Zonoscope by Cut Copy

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Need You Now 6:10 96,297
2 Take Me Over 5:09 96,014
3 Where I'm Going 3:34 93,050
4 Pharaohs & Pyramids 5:28 66,152
5 Blink And You'll Miss A Revolution 4:17 66,256
6 Strange Nostalgia For The Future 2:06 58,168
7 This Is All We've Got 4:43 57,833
8 Alisa 4:07 57,839
9 Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat 4:37 55,062
10 Corner Of The Sky 5:29 53,199
11 Sun God 15:09 42,821

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About this album

Modular Fontana (2011) Released: 8 Feb 2011 11 tracks (60:49)
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.

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.

Zonoscope opens with a blast of woozy ecstasy in the form of “Need You Now”, the sort of track where you don’t even realize how much tension the group has built up until they release it, and ends with “Sun God”, a marathon 15-minute groove that slowly morphs into a tranced-out Giorgio Moroder thud.
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  • Lancelotking

    Just Got it... Brillant!

    last month
  • Timppa2000

    "By the time summer arrives for those of us in the northern hemisphere, we’ll know these songs by heart" ...waiting for summer already :)

    November 2011
  • DJcolorful05

    Definitely a great album and one of the best of the year hands down!!! Great live perormance by them at the Palladium last night!!!

    October 2011
  • Radicalation

    so good omfg. This is definitely a summer/sunny day soundtrack

    October 2011
  • pavelVSlevap

    Tsunehisa Kimura used for cover once again this year: NoYork anyway, Zonoscope is great album

    August 2011
  • Neon_Spadezzz

    I feel euphoric. O__o =] and meet my best friends.

    August 2011
  • mk741

    Been stated many times before, but this is one of the best albums this year.

    July 2011
  • gael1993

    the best !!!!!!!!!!!

    July 2011
  • m-saIami

    Aaaaah this is a top album... on of the best of the year

    June 2011
  • EnanMaldonado

    Where I'm Going is so lovelyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I LOVE IT!

    June 2011
  • EnanMaldonado

    Woohoo* BRILLANT MUSIC!

    June 2011
  • audio_cl

    grower definetly, each listen you discover new things that makes you love it more and more.

    May 2011
  • m-saIami

    Finally, the second half of the album is DOPE too ! hahah =)

    April 2011
  • richardneal

    Love the cover!

    April 2011
  • hotterthanjuly

    Har.

    April 2011
  • scomatsho

    I had high hopes for this but sadly I think it is pretty cheesy like Gorgonzola.

    April 2011
  • RaulECangrejo

    It's a grower!

    April 2011
  • ilovemuzik214

    This Is All We've Got.....my favorite of the album

    April 2011
  • CrossProduct

    It took me a while but the album suddenly "clicks"! I blame the crappy dutch winter weather, it works so much better now with a sunny day :)

    March 2011
  • lusion01

    wow, still on my first listen and this is goooood.

    March 2011
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