CUT COPY'S recent album "Bright Like Neon Love" has been gaining a fair few Avalanches comparisons. Inevitable, really, bearing in mind they're Australian and share both a label and a knack for sampladelic shenanigans, but to this reviewer's ears a bit lazy too.
Because there's a bit more going on here if you ask me. Indeed, this Melbourne trio - comprising Dan Whitford (vocals, guitar, electronics), Tim Hoey (guitar) and drummer Mitchell Scott - have clearly mastered the art of bringing people onto the dancefloor and keeping them there all night as much as they have the art of sounding smart and angular. "Going Nowhere" is culled from the album and is a slice of bubbly, immediate wonkoid disco-pop (and I use that term unashamedly) which understands all there is to know about getting rapidly to the point.
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Yes, there's a way with skronky electronica (and damn it all: for the second time today I hear a vocoder used in something other than an ironic way) and some technological leanings here, but Cut Copy - for all the paste, copy, sample and recycle their name suggests - are ultimately warm, human and as poppy as anything I've heard all year. Despite its' negative title, "Going Nowhere" will actually be going somewhere soon: up the charts and all over the radio.
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