From Australia to You: Cut Copy Storm the HoB Tonight!

Despite an abundance of talent (which we experienced first hand while studying there), Australian bands never make it out of Australia. That’s just how it is. Isolation mixed with lack of a major label system make it nearly impossible for even the best Aussie bands to go global. But somehow, be it the blogs, good A&R, or some sort of crazy telepathic connection modern science has yet to unveil, Cut Copy has spread across the world. They hail from Australia, they own in the states. They’re playing tonight at the House of Blues.


The line “All the girls of note are crying” from In Ghost Colours opener “Feel the Love” might be our favorite first line of all time, and the washing synths and pounding dance beats are exuberant in that raise-your-hands-to-the-sky-and-rejoice kind of way. Cut Copy write dance-floor epics that draw influence across the past thirty years of dance-rock. Just check the ascending synth freak-out on “Lights and Music,” the retro, early-nineties hip-hop “oh yeahs” in “Hearts on Fire,” or their general, unabashed reverence for everything pop. So danceable, so happy. If there were ever a concert to oh-so-romantically fall in love across a dance-floor at, it’s definitely Cut Copy, during “Hearts on Fire.” At least, that’s our plan.

Sample two of their songs here