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* ''Freeze, Melt'' (2020)

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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Typically sit in the 3-4 range, with some of their softer songs being a 2.



* TrueCompanions: Despite nowadays living in completely different continents from each other, all four of the guys consider themselves to have a sibling-like bond.

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* TrueCompanions: Despite nowadays living in completely different continents from each other, all four of the guys consider themselves to have a sibling-like bond.bond.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: They never set out to achieve any kind of chart success and certainly never expected ''In Ghost Colours'' to get as big as it did. Reportedly, Dan's reaction to the album debuting at #1 was that of StunnedSilence.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Dan is choleric (the determined [[TheLeader leader]] of the band, Tim is phlegmatic (the snarky [[TheHeart heart]] of the band), Ben is melancholic (the most serious and musically proficient member) and Mitchell is sanguine (the upbeat, unpredictable joker).

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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Dan is choleric (the determined [[TheLeader leader]] of the band, band), Tim is phlegmatic (the snarky [[TheHeart heart]] of the band), Ben is melancholic (the most serious and musically proficient member) and Mitchell is sanguine (the upbeat, unpredictable joker).
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Dan is choleric (the determined [[TheLeader leader]] of the band, Tim is phlegmatic (the snarky [[TheHeart heart]] of the band), Ben is melancholic (the most serious and musically proficient member) and Mitchell is sanguine (the upbeat, unpredictable joker).

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Cut Copy are an Australian band formed in 2001 dealing primarily in electronic music.

It initially started out as a home-recording project by Dan Whitford experimenting in his spare time, eventually bringing in his university friend Tim Hoey to add guitar tracks. Whitford eventually took these recordings to Paris to be mixed by Philippe Zdar of Cassius fame, and made into the debut album ''Bright Like Neon Love''. Once the album started to gain some traction, the two assembled a live band to tour the record, bringing in Mitchell Scott on drums.

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Cut Copy are an Australian a band from UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}}, Australia that formed in 2001 dealing and deals primarily in electronic music.

It initially started out as a home-recording project by Dan Whitford experimenting with sampling machines in his spare time, eventually bringing in his university friend Tim Hoey to add guitar tracks. Whitford eventually took these recordings to Paris to be mixed by Philippe Zdar of Cassius fame, and made into time. While making the debut album ''Bright Like Neon Love''. Once Love'', his sampling machine broke which led to him bringing in his friends Tim Hoey and Mitchell Scott to help finish the record. The album was released in Australia in 2004, and a year later started to gain some traction, traction internationally which led to the two assembled trio having to put together a live band set-up to tour the record, bringing in Mitchell Scott on drums.
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Three years later in 2011, the band expanded their line-up adding bassist Ben Browning as an official fourth member and released their third album ''Zonoscope'', which took a more experimental direction by incorporating elements of world music. They immediately followed it up in 2013 with ''Free Your Mind'', a more straightforward dance album heavily influenced by late-1980s house mixed with the ethos of 1960s psychedelia.

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Three years later in 2011, Around this time, the band expanded their line-up adding bassist Ben Browning as an official fourth member member, and in 2011 released their third album ''Zonoscope'', which took a more experimental direction by incorporating elements of world music. They immediately followed it up in 2013 with ''Free Your Mind'', a more straightforward dance album heavily influenced by late-1980s house mixed with the ethos of 1960s psychedelia.


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!! Discography:

* ''I Thought of Numbers EP'' (2001)
* ''Bright Like Neon Love'' (2004)
* ''In Ghost Colours'' (2008)
* ''Zonoscope'' (2011)
* ''Free Your Mind'' (2013)
* ''Haiku from Zero'' (2017)
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* Dan Whitford (vocals, synth, guitar)
* Tim Hoey (guitar, synth)
* Ben Browning (bass, synth)
* Mitchell Scott (drums)
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* SiameseTwinSongs: "That Was Just a Dream"/"Zap Zap" from ''Bright Like Neon Love''.

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* SiameseTwinSongs: "That Was Just a Dream"/"Zap Dream" and "Zap Zap" from ''Bright Like Neon Love''.
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* SiameseTwinSongs: "That Was Just a Dream"/"Zap Zap" from ''Bright Like Neon Love''.

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** Even more so with the rare debut EP, ''I Thought of Numbers'' (which at that point was just Dan's home recordings), which are entirely instrumental.



* GenreRoulette: They switch between various genres of electronic music from album to album.


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* NewSoundAlbum: Pretty much every album.
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* EpicRocking: "Let Me Show You Love" (6.05), "Need You Now" (6.09), "Meet Me in a House of Love" (6.09) "Sun God" ('''15:07''').

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* EpicRocking: "Let Me Show You Love" (6.05), "Need You Now" (6.09), "Meet Me in a House of Love" (6.09) 09), and "Sun God" ('''15:07''').
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* EpicRocking: The 15:07 "Sun God".

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* EpicRocking: The 15:07 "Let Me Show You Love" (6.05), "Need You Now" (6.09), "Meet Me in a House of Love" (6.09) "Sun God".God" ('''15:07''').
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* SurprisinglyGentleSong: A slight example; "Tied to the Weather", the closing track on ''Haiku from Zero''. It has by far the most sparse, minimalistic production the band have ever done, although the instrumentation builds up towards the end. It sticks out like a sore thumb on the album, and many reviews have highlighted that particular song as the album's biggest stand-out track.
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** "Airborne" has Dan being stalked in a supermarket by a scruffy-looking guy with superpowers.
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* SesameStreetCred: They appeared on Series/YoGabbaGabba performing a song specially written for the show called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTpyD6RBik Fantastic Voyages]]".

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* SesameStreetCred: They appeared on Series/YoGabbaGabba ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'' performing a song specially written for the show called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTpyD6RBik Fantastic Voyages]]".
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* SesameStreetCred: They appeared on Series/YoGabbaGabba performing a song specially written for the show called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTpyD6RBik&list=PLc7QkGFtZUZ6p2GMpLZurkYFNN7ldP1L0&t=0s&index=49 Fantastic Voyages]]".

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* SesameStreetCred: They appeared on Series/YoGabbaGabba performing a song specially written for the show called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTpyD6RBik&list=PLc7QkGFtZUZ6p2GMpLZurkYFNN7ldP1L0&t=0s&index=49 com/watch?v=WnTpyD6RBik Fantastic Voyages]]".
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* SesameStreetCred: They appeared on Series/YoGabbaGabba performing a song specially written for the show called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTpyD6RBik&list=PLc7QkGFtZUZ6p2GMpLZurkYFNN7ldP1L0&t=0s&index=49 Fantastic Voyages]]".
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* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Dan studied to be a graphic designer, and has been responsible for all of the band's album covers (with the exception of ''Zonoscope'', which is taken from a work by Japanese photomontage artist Tsunehisa Kimura).
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* TrueCompanions: Despite nowadays living in completely different continents from each other, all four of the guys consider themselves to have a sibling-like bond.

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* AlbumTitleDrop: "Walking in the Sky" from ''Free Your Mind''. Notably, it's also the only album of theirs that has a TitleTrack.



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** "Take Me Over" is about a nerdy girl who builds a robot to defeat her bullies.
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** "Free Your Mind" is about a guy played by AlexanderSkarsgard trying to escape from a hippy cult.

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** "Free Your Mind" is about a guy played by AlexanderSkarsgard Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard trying to escape from a hippy cult.
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** "Hearts on Fire" has Dan being followed by a PersonalRaincloud after a breakup.
** "Free Your Mind" is about a guy played by AlexanderSkarsgard trying to escape from a hippy cult.


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* IntercourseWithYou: "Let Me Show You Love" could be interpreted as this.
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* BreakUpSong: "Going Nowhere", "Far Away", and "Standing in the Middle of the Field".
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Typically sit in the 3-4 range, with some of their softer songs being a 2.
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* GenreRoulette: They switch between various genres of electronic music from album to album.

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* GenreRoulette: They switch between various genres of electronic music from album to album.album.
* LyricalDissonance: Almost all of their songs are bright and upbeat musically, and yet some of them have some fairly melancholic lyrics if you really pay attention; examples of this are "Going Nowhere", "Far Away", and much of ''Haiku from Zero''.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: ''Free Your Mind'' simply has the title on a solid blue background.
* OneWomanSong: "Alisa".
* PerishingAltRockVoice
* TitleDrop: Notably, ''Free Your Mind'' is the only album that has a TitleTrack.
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[[caption-width-right:300:Lights and music are on my mind...]]
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Bright Like Neon Love'' is definitely a lot more Music/DaftPunk-influenced than their later work, and also has noticeably smaller production values.
* EpicRocking: The 15:07 "Sun God".
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Most of their albums do this with the tracklisting.
* GenreRoulette: They switch between various genres of electronic music from album to album.
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Cut Copy are an Australian band formed in 2001 dealing primarily in electronic music.

It initially started out as a home-recording project by Dan Whitford experimenting in his spare time, eventually bringing in his university friend Tim Hoey to add guitar tracks. Whitford eventually took these recordings to Paris to be mixed by Philippe Zdar of Cassius fame, and made into the debut album ''Bright Like Neon Love''. Once the album started to gain some traction, the two assembled a live band to tour the record, bringing in Mitchell Scott on drums.

In 2008, the band achieved breakthrough success with their second album, ''In Ghost Colours'' (America and the UK got it in 2009), debuting at #1 on the Australian album charts. It remains their most critically-acclaimed and well-known album to this day.

Three years later in 2011, the band expanded their line-up adding bassist Ben Browning as an official fourth member and released their third album ''Zonoscope'', which took a more experimental direction by incorporating elements of world music. They immediately followed it up in 2013 with ''Free Your Mind'', a more straightforward dance album heavily influenced by late-1980s house mixed with the ethos of 1960s psychedelia.

After a short break, they began work on their fifth album and released ''Haiku from Zero'' in 2017, where they returned to a more experimental approach bringing in some prog and funk elements into their sound. A documentary about some of the ideas behind the album called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmFF1kFczyU Don't Let Me Die Tonight]]'' was released a year later.

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