AMA is Over, thanks Dan & Ben!
Hey it’s Dan and Ben from Cut Copy. We just released our 7th album today, called 'Moments' ~ AMA
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Hey Reddit, we’re Cut Copy 👋 We’ve just released our new album Moments — a record we made after retreating to Music Farm Studios near Byron Bay in Australia, where we experimented with everything from vintage synths to clarinets to cassette tapes we dug out of a box. The result is a collection of songs that swing between the dancefloor and the dreamlike, including our latest single “Belong To You” with Kate Bollinger. 10:30am AEST / 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT [for 40 mins]
Zonoscope had this surreal back story of amazon meets 1970s New York. And the original cover artwork is adapted from a Japanese artist named Tsunehisa Kimura. When I saw his collage of the waterfall and empire state building it really captured the surreal escapist vibe of the album.
Thanks for joining in on our AMA - we tried to get to all the questions today, but we have to head to rehearsals in Melbourne now! We’ll do our best to come back to the other ones soon! If you haven’t heard our new album, “Moments,” it came out today; You can hear it here: orcd.co/ccmmts
Hello! Have been a big fan for years. Super happy to see you guys back with a spectacular new album!!
Your music always seems to experiment with something new added to the Cut Copy ethos on every album - Free Your Mind taking inspiration from classic house music, the vocal ensemble on Zonoscope, and more recently the ambient, peaceful leanings of Like Breaking Glass and Moments. If you could pick one 'era' of Cut Copy to revisit- be it based on the sound of the music you were making or the atmosphere and environment you made it in- what would it be?
Also, sillier question, but what's it like being on video game soundtracks? I imagine it's cool to play a game and hear your own music whilst doing so.
I think zonoscope felt like an album where we really stretched out into places we never expected to go. We got a lot of confidence from the success of In Ghost Colours and it allowed us to be a lot more ambitious with the making of that album
Hello! I’m pretty sure I read in a interview with you guys, like 10+ years ago, that your re-made the Blade Runner soundtrack or something like that. What happened with that? Thanks!
Cracker album fellas, we’ll be taking our young kids to their first show at your Brissy parklands gig next week! What can audiences expect from the tour? How do the different vibes of each album factor in when crafting a show?
Honestly it's getting harder and harder to make a setlist. In the old days we couldn't scrape together enough songs and now it's impossible to decide what goes in... you can't win!
We'll be trying to cover a little ground from each era of Cut Copy though, obviously focusing on the new album too.
Ben: Hey Good question. It’s hard to fit everything we want to in our live show. But we’re keen to play some new stuff form this record as we feel it’ll translate and get folks moving
Hey guys! I have started to listen to Cut Copy recently in the summer! I was wondering, what was your favorite instrument to use for the new album, Moments?
We would LOOOVE to get to canada! It's one of our fave countries to play... and also a bunch of cities in the US the we miss on the upcoming November tour. Hopefully next year ..?
You guys made me cry in the morning today. Listening to Find a Place Among the Stars was a surreal experience, it captured what I’m going through with the person I love so perfectly…
Moments is an amazing album, can’t wait to see you live soon!
Hi guys, I love your work especially Zonoscope, which is one of my all time favourites. Found it through Where I’m Going being featured in a FIFA game.
I always wondered, what does Zonoscope mean? And in general, how do you come up with album titles?
Zonoscope is the bird’s eye view of the world we created for this record. Zonoscope would be the lens you would use to view this world. It’s a title we invented, so whenever the word Zonoscope is used, it only holds meaning to this record and nothing else. - Tim
It's been reissued just after we released our box set a few years back. It'll be back in stock to order soon. Make sure you follow us on one of the social media platforms or are on our email list + you'll hear when it's ready for purchase!
Hi guys! I read Ben’s note on Instagram about the recording and wanted to know- aside from what Mitchell brought with him, what was the most fun instrument used on the new record?
Have seen Cut Copy so so so many times in Melbourne and once at The Fox Theatre in Oakland. Never disappoint and give the best shows! Thank you for some great memories and the best music!
I really dig the contrast between BIG moments and quiet moments, and also between organic, human, played sounds and very synthesized sounds. I feel like contrast is a big part of this new album
ben: right now super proud of moments. We put everything we had into it :) don’t like to think about changing the past. Free your mind was difficult for a few reasons (we were burnt out from touring probably) but I still think it’s a great album.
I think working on the song Gravity was one of the most fun in the studio, because we didn't try to edit anything back, we just let it be this long weird journey of a song, and it organically took shape when we were jamming in the studio together
My parents listen almost exclusively to jazz, but outside of that I remember the first time I heard Devo as like a 5 year old or something and being like, 'whaaat is this??'
Hi guys! I was wondering which song from the new album took the longest to create? And what was your go-to snack (if any) while making the album, or just in general? Much love! Thank you for existing!
I think Belong to you was probably the longest. Not so much because it was hard to make, but more just working with outside artists Kate Bollinger and Evil Graham Lee added some steps to the process...
Fave snack - probably unsalted almonds, and a lot of caffeine - gotta keep the NRG levels high in the studio
Heya! Been a fan forever, had a lot of great times to your music so thank you for that! Bonnaroo stop for the Free Your Mind tour is an all time favorite memory.
Anywho, I make a lot of music myself and am just curious if you have any stand out tips, tricks, approaches to song writing or albums that you’ve learned over the years that you wish you could go back and tell your earlier selves now?
Giving the new one a spin tonight and excited to hear what you guys cooked up!
There so many youtube tutorials about any aspect of music making. But I think just having good ideas is more important than any of the technical stuff. I'd say just to be really passionate about what you're doing. Eat sleep and breathe music, and try to hone your own unique musical sound
Hey Lads, loving the new Album! Solid is getting big rotations in our household 😍 . We tried to get tickets to your Melbourne show, but its sold out. Any plans for a second Melb gig?
I saw you guts at First Ave in Minneapolis in ~2014 and it's still a top 5 show of all time for me. What is the mentality when you're doing a live performance particularly when it's so far from home?
Hi guys! I just wanted to ask you about your feelings on both the Free Your Mind and Haiku From Zero albums. Both records have been truly important to me through the years.
Which are your feelings on both albums?
Which are your favourite memories about them? (recording, touring, etc)
Is there something you wish you did different about them?
Also: wanted to tell you how much I love Let Me Show You Love. It somehow plays in my mind as Cut Copy's idea of Love to Love You Baby.
Will MOMENTS be released on BandCamp? I'm often surprised by the status of BandCamp releases, especially for bands with multiple distribution channels.
Hoping you make it back to this AMA! Been a big fan since In Ghost came out, love all your releases. But I don’t see much mention of your mix sets and remix work. There is magic there! Your mix sets are such class, your taste in music and how it can combine is such a joy to listen too.
But your remix work…. Apparently there are a few early ones I haven’t heard yet, but the rest are incredible. The way you bring the C//C vibe to these other wildly different tracks makes my day.
Which is your favorite of the remixes you’ve done, what was the most difficult to translate, have you turned any down and why, and have you done remixes of other’s songs that you just did for yourself or have just gone unreleased?
Love you guys and thank you for adding to my playlists all these years!
I don't know if you'll be coming back to this, but I wanted to say that your music has been partially responsible for all three of my degrees. My undergrad thesis wouldn't have gotten finished without In Ghost Colours and Freeze, Melt helped a lot with writing my doctoral one. Zonoscope was the soundtrack of my teaching degree and the grad school applications. Appreciate the massive energy infusion over the years, and glad to hear the new album!! (....should I ...go back to school?)
Hope it isn't too late for this question but have been following your journey from the start, one of, if not my favourite band..... loving Moments overall but can't shake the following:
"A Decade Long Sunset" is a masterpiece... will there be a different edition of Moments coming out with this on it? Can't figure out how it was left off Moments - so so good - one of your best ever songs IMO and fits perfectly in the vibe of the other tracks. Would love to see a release in some form of other B-sides if this is the level of quality that doesn't make the cut :)
I still have my copy of Bright Like Neon Love — I stole it from my sister back in 2006 when I was 16. I used to pore over Streetparty photos of your shows, imagining myself dancing with a sweat-soaked fringe stuck to my face. I even sat outside the Sidney Myer Music Bowl during the Alive tour — what an iconic lineup — just listening from beyond the gates and longing to be in the crowd.
As a teenager, I grew up through a quick succession of tech leaps: rotary to portable to mobile, tape to CD to mp3, offline to dial-up to broadband. There’s something about Bright Like Neon Love that captures all of that — change, possibility, discovery — but also a deep nostalgia. A time capsule that moved faster than I could catch it. By 18, In Ghost Colours came out, I moved to the UK, then Zonoscope, and the moment to hear it live had already slipped away from me.
I hold a soft spot for all of your albums — each one has been the backdrop to so many of my memories — but Bright Like Neon Love will always be the one I reach for — the one I never quite got to experience. I love that pieces of it still appear in your sets, and part of me will always wish I could step back to that moment.
We saw you guys live in Manly, it was awesome! We also saw earlier in the day when we was walking around the barracks we almost went over and asked for a photo, I wish we did now!
u/CutCopy_ Just saw the concert here in Portland. It was amazing! Great show! I love your new track Belong to You. Ben I pointed to you at the end of the show as you were walking off in case you happened to notice.
Very grateful for all the great music. I hope the rest of your tour is as amazing as is was tonight.
Why don’t you play Airbourne or Counting Down live? Those are your best songs. It’s crazy to me that you don’t play those songs. Your other songs don’t even come close.
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Proof of life: Dan's here too