Record Store Day 2013 release, first time ever pressed to vinyl, originally released in 2004. Limited to 4000 copies.
The Australian dance-pop group Cut Copy, fronted by multi-instrumentalist/DJ/graphic designer Dan Whitford, ends their stellar debut album with "A Dream," a mellow come down from a record scattershot with retro-dance and rock ideas fitted together with ebullient grooves. Perhaps it would have been better served as an introduction to what is such a free flowing, unrestrained electronic dance record. Bright Like Neon Love -- and by extension Whitford -- is so enamored with simple ideals of dance music, it feels like a dreamy, unconscious state of hypnotic rhythms designed purely for easy listening. Conversely, in no way does this strong rookie effort ever really test the listener -- rarely does Whitford expand beyond the confines of catchy synth loops and simplistic, manipulated vocals -- but as a perfectionist of the pop music craft, any one of the main tracks could have appeared on a Kylie or Madonna record as sure-fire hit singles.
A1 Time Stands Still 4:34 A2 Future 5:12 A3 Saturdays 3:37 A4 Saturdays (Reprise) 1:38 A5 Going Nowhere 3:40 B1 DD-5 0:26 B2 That Was Just A Dream 2:33 B3 Zap Zap 2:41 B4 The Twilight 5:24 B5 Autobahn Music Box 4:30 B6 Bright Neon Payphone 3:52 B7 A Dream 3:45
