cut copy free your mind download Cut copy free your mind download. Includes printed inner sleeves and MP3 download card. Band name appears as "Cut/Copy" on spine, and "Cut Copy" on hype sticker, labels, inner sleeve, and download card. ℗ & © 2013 Pty Limited, under exclusive license to Universal Music Australia and licensed in the U.S. to Seven Four Entertainment, LLC/Universal Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 1755 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. All songs published by Kobalt Music (World ex-Australia and NZ), except A4, published by Kobalt Music (World ex-Australia and NZ) / Universal Music Publishing Group / MCA Music Ltd./Bucks Music Group. Contains elements of "Let Me Show You" (Morgan, Roberts, Thomas, Williams, Hall, Whitecross, Stewart). PublUniversal / MCA Music Ltd./Bucks Music Group. All initial recording at CCHQ Tracks A2, A3, B3, C1, C2, D3 & D4 recorded at Adelphia Studios, Australia Tracks A2, A4, B3, C2, D1 & D3 additional recording at Sing Sing, Melbourne, Australia Mixed at Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, NY, USA Mastered at The Exchange, London, England. THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CLOSED. Please join the conversation over on our new forums » If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive. Cut Copy. Free Your Mind. Label: Modular Release Date: 03/11/2013. Dance music nostalgia is a dangerous concept. One minute you’re at a warehouse party blazed on acid and wondering why you can’t see primary colours anymore. The next, you’re ferrying the kids back from their first school disco while Heart FM’s Club Classics plays in the background. For Cut Copy to hark back to electronica’s 90s heyday is understandable. They nailed twinkling synth euphoria on before indulging their percussive inclinations with 2011’s Zonoscope . By drawing their third to a close with a 15 minute rave-athon called ‘Sun God’, Dan Whitford’s quartet left themselves stranded in the experimental ether. Having travelled so far from ‘Lights & Music’ (and even further from the dream-pop of 'Autobahn Music Box'), how could they retreat to immediacy again? As per any mid-life crisis, the answer lay in halcyon days - when Whitford was first acquainting himself with The Orb, Orbital and 808 State. Free Your Mind is the musical equivalent of laying down £5,000 on a second-hand Harley Davidson to ferry yourself back and forth from the golf club. A few more glutinous chugs of dub and glistening outbursts of house-tinted piano don’t do much to change the fact that this is unmistakably a Cut Copy album. Honestly, that’s no bad thing. ‘We Are Explorers’ counts as one of the best tracks the Aussies have penned to date. It’s got layer upon layer of wide-eyed bumps and squiggles that compel you to make a gurnface and generally give the impression you’re having a grand old time. Likewise, ‘Meet Me In A House Of Love’ is ludicrously infectious as it swells back and forth around a saxophone riff for six glorious minutes. Similarly to Electric , this year’s proudly uptempo comeback from Pet Shop Boys, Free Your Mind’s finest moments are a whole lot of fun. Its title track and ‘Footsteps’ will refresh you with gleeful purpose long after the rest of the record has fallen from your memory. Sat alongside these vintage offerings however, is a sizeable amount of dross. You could lop the last four tracks off your album playlist and only miss out on lesser incarnations of past Cut Copy tracks. ‘Take Me Higher’ passes off ‘Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat’s melancholic twinge as its own, while ‘Walking In The Sky’ is the distant, dreary cousin of ‘Strangers In The Wind’. When stacked on top of some aimless interlude tracks, you’re left with an album that’s insecure in its chirpy pop visage. Offerings like the acoustic-tinted ‘Dark Corners And Mountain Tops’ seem to have made the cut because they represent fresh thinking for Cut Copy, and that’s about it. Ultimately, this ‘try anything once’ mindset is repeated too many times across Free Your Mind . Like most earnest attempts to reimagine the past, it’s an entertaining indulgence. One that exists to stave off the nagging question: what comes next? Cut Copy Free Your Mind. Whelp, my mind and body just got freed after seeing Cut Copy rock the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA. The Australian quartet define the modern days of disco with a balance of psychedelic rock and synth pop vibes. No matter how many times that I've seen these guys play, the endless energy which they create never gets old. The sold-out Friday night show started with their shadowy silhouettes appearing on a draped tapestry with fists in the air. Then the curtain dropped and the crowd erupted, releasing their energy. The band opened with "Free Your Mind," which is the title track from their newest studio album. This song metaphorically and physically set the tone for the night, which ultimately was one for the record books. The set list for the evening was a good balance of old and new tracks, but it was the songs from their newest album Free Your Mind that I personally was looking forward to. The part of their new album that fascinated me most was the deep house flavors they infused in some of the songs -- a direction that shows their growth and versatility. After transcending through night, Cut Copy took us all on a epic journey full of euphoric highs and a few much needed breathers with tracks like "Strangers in the Wind." Their hour and a half long set, which could've gone another two hours, came to an end, only coming out with an encore to top it all off with "Lights and Music." I think we all woke up the next day with that track still playing in our heads, at least it was for me. Free Your Mind. Australian electronic outfit Cut Copy never sounded like a band that had a problem getting to the point. On Free Your Mind , though, their most overtly fun and least dynamic music restates the obvious over and over again. Featured Tracks: Cut Copy never sounded like a band that had a problem getting to the point. Nor did they ever sound like a band that needed a serotonin boost. Yet, even “Lights & Music”, “Need You Now”, “Hearts on Fire”, “Take Me Over” and just about any of the Australian quartet’s uniformly excellent and directly-titled singles can sound wishy-washy and kinda dark in the face of Free Your Mind , its Successories screen-saver album cover and Dan Whitford’s claim that the title refers to a freedom that’s “universally positive and timeless.” Maybe Cut Copy were hippies all along, and whether you think that’s progress or a serious regression, Free Your Mind is at least a sensible continuation of their trajectory from the cosmopolitan, club-friendly and DFA-affiliated In Ghost Colours to the breezier, more festival-ready 80s pop of Zonoscope . But there’s a difference between freeing your mind, losing your mind and just flat-out shutting it down. And you just wish Cut Copy left even something to the imagination, as their most overtly fun and least dynamic music restates the obvious over and over again throughout Free Your Mind . Their aims are admirable here. Whitford claimed the band took their inspiration from the Summers of Love, both 1967 and 1989. Philosophically and sonically, those years are something of a package deal anyway—Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets were essentially psychedelic pop-rock bands with beats, while and had no qualms about straight-up pilfering the era. You can’t doubt Cut Copy’s commitment to sidling up with nu-Madchester types like Jagwar Ma and Paradise, as there’s barely any modernist touch to be found on the title track, just all of your favorite E’s and wizz signifiers, sorted out neatly: staggered house piano vamps, endlessly thumping bass drum and Whitford letting his vocals get all baggy in every sense of the word, an amalgamation of Shaun Ryder’s dysfunctional relationship with pitch, Ian Brown’s bedheaded proclamations and Bobby Gillespie’s revolutionary hokum. In about five minutes, you hear everything new Cut Copy has to offer, though they stay true to their strange nostalgia for the future by slipping inside the proverbial on “Let Me Show You Love” and all but sampling Stone Roses’ “Don’t Stop” on “Take Me Higher". There are enough highlights to still make their ecstatic live shows a must-see; “Walking in the Sky” is stately flower-child pop while “We Are Explorers” reaches the hands-in-the-air mania as effectively as their previous singles. But with its timbale breakdown, a chorus melody with sharp contours rather than flabby curves, it’s just a reminder of what you're missing out on here. Free Your Mind has a personality, at least. It’s a concept album of sorts, taking you out of the desert (Coachella’s EDM-friendly Sahara Tent?), above the city and. something about the waves. You wouldn’t think they’d have much more to say about holistic healing and solar-religiosity after ending Zonoscope with a 15-minute song named “Sun God", and they don’t really, though it doesn’t stop them from trying—the lyrical component of Free Your Mind is straight magnet poetry about us getting higher/shining brighter than the sun and getting free and getting loaded. And while Whitford’s slack affectations are pitch-perfect on “Free Your Mind”, elsewhere the same effect just means he’s singing off key, capturing the tone of his influences, but lacking the necessary rock-star posturing. If this seems like an unusual amount of focus on Cut Copy’s lyrics, it’s because the music itself seems content to keep the beat and little else. Though it’s every bit as sequentially-formatted as In Ghost Colours or Zonoscope , F ree Your Mind lacks the dynamism of its predecessors, the DJ-curated ebb and flow. You can laugh at the ridiculous spoken word interludes, but they’re about the only thing that can jar you out of the mid- album lull created as Free Your Mind goes forward. With few exceptions, it’s basically a Cut Copy album that’s just deep cuts—you get the same octave-jumping funk basslines (“In Memory Capsule”), the occasional acoustic-laced pop-rock (“Dark Corners & Mountain Tops”) and slow- moving disco-pop from their past records, only with lumpier melodies and Dave Fridmann’s mixing job using reverb like packing peanuts to make Free Your Mind sound both puffy and stiff. Cut Copy’s music has always been simple; the difficult part was trying to explain in non-illusory terms what made Bright Like Neon Love , In Ghost Colours and Zonoscope glorious and uplifting rather than silly or even flat out dumb. My take is that they had omnivorous enough taste to show they take their craft seriously, while avoiding crowd-moving mock profundity and proving they don’t take themselves all that serious. Free Your Mind manages to be Cut Copy's most homogenous and it's most "message-based" record yet, and in doing little other than turning on, tuning in and dropping out, there’s precious little separating it from the vapid electro-pop to which Cut Copy used to be an alternative. Cut Copy – “Free Your Mind” Though many might have been distracted by the tornado of Arcade Fire news last night (which is perfectly understandable), there was some other great news from another great band: Australian synth-pop gods Cut Copy announced their fourth album, Free Your Mind . Now, album No. 4 might normally be when a synth-pop group starts to sound a little long in the the tooth, but upon hearing the title track from the new one, Cut Copy sound absolutely vital. Though the opening sample sounds almost like a homage to their Australian forefathers, the Avalanches, “Free Your Mind” is total Screamadelica -style bliss. From the soul samples to the bongos and cheers of “shine on,” and, of course “free your mind,” this is an absolute psychedelic banger. It might not surprise you to learn that the record was mixed by Dave Fridmann, who in addition to working with Tame Impala (who pretty much took the mantle from Cut Copy last year for biggest current indie band from Australia) produced the new album by MGMT. Maybe it’s just me, but this seems a little unexpected from the band, but nonetheless extremely promising. Listen below.