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(Clicka qua per la versione Italiana)
Australia's Cut Copy (Dan Whitford) emerged as a purveyor of orchestral pop, set
to a retro-disco beat in a way similar to the British vogue
of the 1980s during the age of synth-pop. The idea per se would not particularly
revolutionary, but the addition of the guitar next to the electronic
keyboards and drum-machines makes for a rougher sound on
Bright Like Neon Love (2004). The winners, though, are the
dance-pop numbers:
Time Stands Still,
Going Nowhere,
Future.
Improved audio quality turned In Ghost Colours (Modular, 2008)
into a commercial success, emphasizing the
catchy and bouncy dance jams
(Feel the Love, Lights And Music).
They speculated shamelessly on the simple formula of
techno locomotive plus synth-pop aria (Out There On The Ice, Hearts of Fire),
although some of the best numbers still fall in the
rock category (the pounding and soaring So Haunted,
the quasi-shoegazing Unforgettable Season).
In Ghost Colours was perhaps the ultimate electroclash album.
Zonoscope (Modular, 2011) is not exactly a work of genius:
the poppy Take Me Over is basically a remake of the Men At Work's Down Under,
Need You Now sounds like a minor
Pet Shop Boys ballad,
the 15-minute throbbing trance Sun God would have been a second-rate imitation of Giorgio Moroder in the days of From Here to Eternity and the
Madchester-via-Merseybeat singsong Where I'm Going is cute but hardly
revolutionary. Worse: the rest of the album is pure fluff.
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