In mid-March the indie-electro band played their timeless anthems to more than 10,000 people at a Melbourne gig. It feels like another world away
After almost two decades soundtracking nightclubs and parties, Dan Whitford is getting tired. When the founding member of the indie dance outfit Cut Copy decamped to Copenhagen in 2016, he began sussing out the local techno scene at warehouse raves. “I went to a couple when I first got there and then thought, ‘That’s a bit past my bedtime.’”
It wasn’t just the scene that turned him inward; the subzero winter and isolation from the familiarity of home began influencing the music he was making. The result, Cut Copy’s new record Freeze, Melt, is the band’s most contemplative and insular.
Our bread and butter has been sweaty dance floors and tightly packed festival crowds. It’s hard to imagine what context that’s going to exist in in the future
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We’d given so much of our time to making music that would work on a dancefloor ... it just lost interest for us
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