Cut Copy At The Riviera In Chicago With Opener Washed Up (Who Are Anything But...)

9/22/2011

Who says indie rock and dance music cannot mix? Who sayeth never the twain shall meet? Probably no one really but if anyone were to so blaspheme they would be proven abruptly wrong at a Cut Copy show. The band are heavy on the dance but they mix in the indie rock quite nicely as well. There is instrumentation in the midst of all the electronics and they are never lost, never missing in the mix. Australians seem to be taking the lead in this genre of dance music that rocks a little and more power to them.

Make no mistake, however, this is much more dance music than anything else. It never gets repetitive or dull or loses energy or bases that energy on something recorded months ago. The live performance provides the energy. I have seen some dance bands whose performance is about hired on guys playing in the background (and wardrobe...yawwwn). No worries about that being the case with Cut Copy. You may even notice an ACOUSTIC guitar in the photos.

Cut Copy’s third, and probably most ambitious record, Zonoscope, came out in early 2011. The band made a name for themselves with 2008’s In Ghost Colours (or Colors for those of us not in the Commonwealth). The band also tour like crazy. This is their third trip to Chicago, including a date at Pitchfork 2011.

Cut Copy hail from Melbourne and the current tour ends in Paris at the Pitchfork Festival in the City Lights after numerous October dates in the USA or at least that is the last date currently scheduled. Find out more on current dates HERE.