Cut Copy tell Undercover about the trance-like state of some songs on their new album Zonoscope.
On their latest album, Melbourne’s own international new wave electro stars expand their sound past pop to psychedelica, particularly Zonoscope’s 15-minute final track ‘Sun God’.
“I guess on this record there’s a theme through it of percussion and this repetitive, almost trance-like sensation to some of the songs,” Dan Whitford explains to Undercover, “I guess inspired by African percussion or Kraurock, even early house stuff. – drawing on those influences.”
“A lot of the songs have extended moments where you get into this hypnotic groove before there’s even a word spoken,” he says, “That’s almost the point of the record, this slightly eerie, hypnotic feeling to some of the tracks. It’s something we’ve tried to tease out over the record.”
Tim Hoey explains the process of making the epic closer ‘Sun God'.
“The first half of the song was written in the warehouse, then Dan took it home and put together all the stuff we recorded. We were listening back to it at his place and it had this little outro that maybe went for 40 or 50 seconds.”
“Dan just kinda stopped it and I said ‘What was that?’ And he said, ‘I was just messing around with a few things at the end there’. I said, ‘It sounds really interesting, like it’s not finished yet. It feels like it wants to go somewhere else.”
“The whole idea behind it was to create this really immersive experience where time becomes a bit irrelevant. It doesn’t matter how long it goes for; it could be 15 minutes or 15 hours.”
Check out Tim and Dan discussing the process of making their latest opus below.
