Hearts on Fire
I wrote an email to Scott Plagenhoef, editor at Pitchfork, after reading his blurb citing “In Ghost Colours” as the 4th best album of 2008. Here’s what he wrote:
There was a surprisingly feast-or-famine reaction this year to Cut Copy’s In Ghost Colours, an album that on one hand should be a go-to indie dance/pop/rhythm release (see “Hearts on Fire”, “Lights and Music”) and on the other is actually closer in spirit to a flat-out gorgeous and uplifting pop record (“Out There on the Ice”, “So Haunted”, and “Unforgettable Season”). Our reviewer Mark Pytlik simply yet accurately called In Ghost “a hard record not to love,” yet it also had the sense all year of an LP bubbling just under the surface.
After reading that blurb, I went home to the apartment and put the album on the stereo. I’ve owned it for months but hadn’t actually sat down and really given it a full listen. Scott’s comments seem totally accurate to me in that light. I knew I liked the music but I didn’t realize to what extent.
My friend said “I liked ‘In Ghost Colours’ got my toes tappin but not my booty shakin.” And I responded that it was probably too sad to be a booty shakin kind of thing but perhaps it’s a “toe tappin’ heart hurtin’” kind of deal.
Take a listen. “Hearts on Fire” is this sad beautiful pulsing throbbing late night kind of electro-groove that seems to take you back to your childhood even when it doesn’t.
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