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Feb 23, 2011In fact, it's very hard to determine what the actual standout from this album will be, because literally every track is full to the absolute brim with the genius of seasoned veterans
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Feb 3, 2011The refreshing thing about bands like Cut Copy is that they're consistent. Far too often do artists change direction throughout their careers and sometimes lose touch with that thing that made us all fall in love with them in the first place, but this isn't the case with Zonoscope.
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Feb 7, 2011Compared to the last two albums, Zonoscope has precious little guitar crunch, which makes it hard to even call Cut Copy a dance-rock band anymore.
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Feb 7, 2011I'm elated to report that Zonoscope is a more than worthy successor to Colours, adhering to the tried and true follow-up formula of introducing just enough new wrinkles to their method to keep the proceedings from being a rehash, but containing plenty of the rapturous pop hooks that drew us to them in the first place.
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Feb 7, 2011Cut Copy are deceptively complex, even at their hookiest.
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Feb 18, 2011Owing a debt of gratitude to every 1970s police show theme song in existence, Cut Copy blends all their influences into a multi-movement haze of electronics, creating a perfect album send-off. Hit repeat and keep the good times rolling.
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Feb 8, 2011Thanks to its beauty, warmth, and top-rate songwriting, Cut Copy remain atop the pile of dance-rock groups in 2011, right next to LCD Soundsystem. Thanks to its beauty, warmth, and top-rate songwriting, Cut Copy remain atop the pile of dance-rock groups in 2011, right next to LCD Soundsystem.
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Feb 8, 2011The record works best at its most focused and extroverted.
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Feb 7, 2011It's Cut Copy's most textured and rhythmically complex record, and also irresistible in its emotional simplicity.
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Feb 7, 2011It's another step nearer the masterpiece this band are increasingly capable of delivering.
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Feb 7, 2011Sure, there are those who might be after an In Ghost Colours part two who might be alienated by this album's evident ambition, but for most of us, this is going to be a serious upping of the game.
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Feb 15, 2011There aren't too many new stones in the pop garden that Cut Copy overturns, but what it roots out is expertly arranged, creating pastiches that raise ghosts from the past while capturing a spirit that's utterly now.
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Mar 4, 2011Cut Copy thrives when the ingredients are simple: melody, voice and its influences interpreted.
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Feb 18, 2011Cut Copy are back, and back with enough danceable synth-pop to flatten the sensitive Bombay Bicycle Club member in all of us - but only just enough.
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Feb 14, 2011While not quite the amazing leap that Cut Copy made from Bright Like Neon Love to In Ghost Colours, Zonoscope is by no means a bad album. But it is one that will probably sound better when wafting across a field during festival season.
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Feb 9, 2011Zonoscope is a deviation with mostly good ideas, some great ones, and enough sparkling synth ambrosia and sing-along chorus hooks to get you through.
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Feb 8, 2011With few exceptions, these are a solid collection of dance-rock songs and rock-dance tracks-Zonoscope represents the evolution of a band that knows what it's doing.
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Feb 7, 2011They've all called Zonoscope less poppy and more meandering. That's not necessarily the entire case here, but don't doubt the band on this: there are fewer big singles here, and this one isn't likely to spawn multiple indie hits months after its release like the last album.
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Feb 7, 2011Zonoscope's extensive flirtation with last year's vogue is the most obvious sense in which Cut Copy fails to establish a sonic identity of their own.
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Feb 7, 2011Clocking in at just a shade over an hour, Zonoscope is – as its cover art of Manhattan being engulfed by a waterfall suggests – a very surreal leviathan, an object that surely mesmerizes as we all wait for the oncoming Armageddon.
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Feb 15, 2011Sure Zonoscope is splattered with stumbled-upon gems, but a little more editing and maybe some more focused songwriting sessions could have really brought Zonoscope into focus.
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Feb 8, 2011When Zonoscope sticks to concise songcraft, it's a satisfying, if sometimes trifling, pleasure.
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Q MagazineMay 2, 2011Take Me Over makes a misplaced attempt at funk, which grates slightly, but it's hard to dislike the well tuned synths and dreamy choruses of tracks such as Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat. [Apr 2011, p.101]
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Alternative PressFeb 23, 2011Like most everything else here, it's a dancing no-brainer. [Mar 2011, p.92]
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Feb 11, 2011They throw the kitchen sink into Sun God, a 15-minute odyssey somewhere between LCD Soundsystem and disco, which could probably liven up any living room into an Aussie beach party.
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Feb 9, 2011Things are a little different now but like many of their contemporaries, Cut Copy have had to adapt to the landscape and Zonoscope is a considered attempt at a more kaleidoscopic approach.
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Feb 8, 2011Australian synth-pop quartet Cut Copy do the Eighties eerily well. Too well, in fact. Cue up the band's third album, and you find yourself playing spot-the-influence.
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Feb 4, 2011Zonoscope is far from an outright failure, just more severe of a backslide than expected.
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Feb 16, 2011The contrived sheen marring much of the album dissolves, and things get industrial real quick. That dark and uncharted - for Cut Copy - territory might be the way to go heading forward.
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Feb 7, 2011After the ubiquitous presence of '80s-indebted music last year, a follow-up with little stylistic deviation isn't a thrilling proposition: Take Me Over steals a hook from fellow Australians Men At Work, adds ooh-ooh backing vocals and just about gets away with it.
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UncutApr 13, 2011This is departure lounge pop--antiseptic, pleasant, with Photoshopped pics of exotic locales scattered around, but none of the hedonism of actually being there. [May 2011, p.82]
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Positive: 40 out of 44
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Mixed: 4 out of 44
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Negative: 0 out of 44
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