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Zonoscope

Cut CopyMP3 Music
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)

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  • Original Release Date: February 8, 2011
  • Format - Music: MP3
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Some great grooves and electronica, but also some good melodic songs on this album. Donald E. Gilliland  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
Bought this during the Summer and it's still the best album I've heard this year. Calvin  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
If you want to hear music that sounds like the album's cover, this record is for you. Andrew Vice  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
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52 of 63 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Cut Copy - Zonoscope February 8, 2011
Format:Audio CD
Zonoscope is the kind of record to get your groove on to. It's the kind of record where the band says "screw the haters, we're gonna make the music we want to make." It risks alienating the fans that hopped on the Cut Copy train after P4k's review of In Ghost Colours, but it's a bold artistic statement and a clarion call to dance. Where In Ghost Colours was flowing, articulate tribute to 1980's new wave anthems, Zonoscope proves to be a record full of deep cuts, with only a few tracks near-meeting the immediacy of Ghost gems (Need You Now, Blink and You'll Miss A Revolution, Alisa.)

If you want to like LCD Soundsystem but find Murphy too drab/tryhard/longwinded, Zonoscope is a record for you. If you legitimately like Cut Copy, this is a record for you. If you want to hear music that sounds like the album's cover, this record is for you. You can blast this one from the tops of skyscrapers when the ice caps finally melt and flood the world, and the apocalypse will be alright.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars "Blink and You'll Miss a Revolution" February 8, 2011
Format:Audio CD
Cut Copy has slowly but surely worked its way up into the current wave of electronic dance bands, not unlike, say, LCD Soundsystem. The band's second album, 2008's "In Ghost Colours" (ok, 3rd if you count 2006's "Fabriclive.29" DJ mix album) was the great leap forward for the band. From being an interesting, if at time tentative, sound, the band now sounded fully confident, and at times massive. That album contained several instant classics, including a couple of borderline commercial breakthrough singles ("Lights and Music", "Hearts on Fire"). Now finally comes the long-awaited follow-up album.

"Zonoscope" (11 tracks; 61 min.) is not another "great leap forward", but instead a confirmation of all the good things we heard on "In Ghost Colours". The album starts off somewhat tentatively with "Need You Know", which is followed by a nice "Take Me Over" that reminds me somehow at times of another Australian band's (Men At Work) "Down Under" single. Could it be a subtle homage? The album now is firing on all cylinders. "Blink and You'll Miss a Revolution" is an irresistible dance-along, just perfect from start to finish with a strong melody that keeps going and going, and you just don't want the song to ever end, THE highlight of the album for me personally. A short instrumental after that ("Strange Nostalgia For the Future") ends the first half of the album. The second half kicks off with another great tune "This Is All We've Got". "Alisa" continues the good vibes. "Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat" is the only pensive tune on the album, just to catch your breath before the last 2 tunes, "Corner of the Sky", another dance-romp, which set us up for the album closer, the 15 min. blow-out that is "Sun God", where the band throws in everything and the kitchen sink, wow, just unbelievable, what a way to bow out.

In all, even though no new ground is broken, this is quite the album, and sure to end up high in my "best albums of 2011" list. For whatever reason the album includes lyrics to only 4 of the songs, why? That aside, I had the great fortune of catching Cut Copy on their "In Ghost Colours" tour at the Monolith music festival at the Red Rocks in Denver in September, 2008, and what an absolute great and fun set that was. Can't wait to see these guys again in concert. Meanwhile, "Zonoscope" is highly recommended!
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun February 9, 2011
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I will let other reviewers get into the nitty gritty of certain tracks and comparisons with Cut Copy's previous works and just say this: if you want to listen to a fun, chair-dancing (or even club dancing) album, this album is for you. Not only do I think that Zonoscope fits nicely with their previous body of work but I can also see this being high on my list of 2011 and am looking forward to dancing my heart out when I see them in April.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Awesome. As described. Great quality new vinyl. omg let this review end please dear god....now five more words. yeah okay
Published 5 months ago by Emily Jackson
4.0 out of 5 stars I kinda feel like they took a totally different direction on this one.
"In Ghost Colours" is one of my favorite albums of all time so naturally expectations were quite high. I was hoping for absolute greatness and it seemed to come a bit short. Read more
Published 11 months ago by daftchild89
4.0 out of 5 stars My introduction to Cut Copy
This seems to be a fairly controversial release among Cut Copy fans, I've noted as I read reviews here. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Alto Eager
5.0 out of 5 stars Vibrant
I'm over 50 but still listen to music all the time: all day and all night. Music drives me and soothes me and inspires me. And sometimes it gets me up and dancing around the room. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Donald E. Gilliland
5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to be moved in more ways than one
(Taken from my blog at http://ryanestabrooks.com)

With "Zonoscope", we see a dance-rock band managing to explore new territory in a genre that is often hit-or-miss for... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ryan Estabrooks
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Album of 2011
Bought this during the Summer and it's still the best album I've heard this year. Best songs; Take Me over, Blink and you'll..., the whole album is really solid.
Published 17 months ago by Calvin
4.0 out of 5 stars Nineteen-eighty-thirtyone is totally a year!
I bought this album after catching some samples on the radio, and it lived up to expectations. The sound style spans early beach rock through the '90s, but spends a good deal of... Read more
Published 18 months ago by LoneKiltedNinja
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Cut Copy is one of my favorite artists, and this album just re-affirms that feeling.

Their style has definitively changed just a bit from their other two albums, but at... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Clayton Mathews
1.0 out of 5 stars Defective copy!
I received a copy with annoying breaks of silence inserted between tracks, a defective CD copy! This was obviously recorded to be a seamless listening experience. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Gary Thomas Parfitt
3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly disappointing
After reading all the glowing reviews and already having "In Ghost Colours", I was looking forward to Zonoscope. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Stephen
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