Early Frontrunner for Album of the Year
Sections: Music Reviews Apr 16th, 2008 1 Comment
…In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy. More from Pitchfork:
From the first swirling synths and gleaming melodies of curtain raiser “Feel the Love”, In Ghost Colours asserts itself as a hugely magnanimous record. Everything here sounds stadium-sized, loved-up, and breezily inclusive. There’s the lead single “Lights & Music”, an arena rock slow burner with a disco chorus; or the superb, helicoptering house of 2007 single “Hearts on Fire”, which gets a welcome reprise; or the sunburst rock of “Unforgettable Season”, which recalls Broken Social Scene in its ability to sound in full swoon from chord one; or the carefree “Strangers in the Wind”, whose lazy verse and torpid guitar peels owe a little bit to Fleetwood Mac. Elsewhere, “So Haunted” and “Far Away” compete for standout track status, the former sandwiching verses of fuzzy guitar squall around one of the most gorgeous-sounding choruses of the year, the latter an effervescent bit of 80s synth fluff that holds up against the best of Human League and Erasure.
Such. A. Great. Album. I don’t often agree word for word with a Pitchfork review but I simply can’t say it better. If this doesn’t end up being the album of the year, it has to already be the album of the summer… in April.
