Cut Copy: Zonoscope - review

This Melbourne quartet's third album is almost like a mix tape, taking snatches of recognisable songs and blending them together into their own tracks with the aim of creating a greater whole. You'll hear a Fleetwood Mac bassline, a fragment of Men At Work's Down Under, or (on the single Take Me Over) a chorus suspiciously reminiscent of Boymeetsgirl's 1988 smash Waiting for a Star to Fall. This approach won't win the Aussie electro pranksters awards for originality, but they do it with enough sleight of hand to stay ahead of the lawyers, and it's a lot of fun. Zonoscope's 80s-style musical travelogue never lingers anywhere too long, whether casting Dan Whitford's ennui-laden croon against New Order synths or Yes's electronic-prog period. They throw the kitchen sink into Sun God, a 15-minute odyssey somewhere between LCD Soundsystem and disco, which could probably liven up any living room into an Aussie beach party.