In Ghost Colours

Infobox Album
Name = In Ghost Colours
Type = studio
Artist = Cut Copy

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Background = #ebf5ff
Released = flagicon|AUS March 22, 2008cite web|url=http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/international/12069/Cut-Copy-take-In-Ghost-Colours-to-the-Yanks.htm|title="Cut Copy take In Ghost Colours to the Yanks"|publisher="FasterLouder.com.au"|accessdate=2008-02-04]
flagicon|US April 8, 2008
flagicon|GBR May 12, 2008
Recorded = 2007cite web|url=http://cut-copy.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-album-announced.html|title="NEW ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT!!!"|publisher="Cut Copy official blog"|accessdate=2008-02-04]
Genre = Dance-punk
Indie rock
Alternative dance
Electropop
Length = 50:30
Label = Modular
Producer = Tim Goldsworthy, Cut Copy
Reviews =
* Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gxfrxzejld0e link]
* [http://consequenceofsound.com/ Consequence of Sound] A [http://consequenceofsound.net/2008-05-05/album-review-in-ghost-colours/ link]
*Drowned in Sound (9/10) [http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3241579 link]
* FasterLouder (very positive) [http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/music/12669/Cut-Copy-In-Ghost-Colours.htm]
*Paste Magazine (favourable) [http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/7192/review/music/in_ghost_colours link]
* Pitchfork Media (8.8/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49916-in-ghost-colours/ link]
*Prefix Magazine (9/10) [http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/cut-copy/in-ghost-colours/17941/ link]
*"Spin rating|3.5|5 [http://www.spin.com/reviews/cut-copy-ghost-colours-modular link]
* Time Off rating|4|5 [http://www.thelowdown.com.au/index1.php?area=Archive&pg=42&subarea=188&sel=8731&showcontent=8731/ link]
* Trax Magazine rating|4|5
*URB Magazine rating|4|5 [http://www.urb.com/reviews/cd/feature.php?ReviewId=561 link]

Last album = "Fabric Live 29"
(2006)
This album = "In Ghost Colours"
(2008)
Next album =

"In Ghost Colours" is the second studio album by Australian band Cut Copy. It comprises 15 tracks in total, including a re-recorded version of the single "Hearts on Fire". The album was originally planned as an Australian release for 2007, but was delayed until 2008 to accommodate a simultaneous international debut of the recording.

"In Ghost Colours" marked the band's debut to the Australian ARIA Albums Chart, reaching number-one on March 30, 2008. Pitchfork Media rated the album an 8.8, one of the highest scores of the year so far.

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The album's sound has been mostly singled out for its positive, uptempo melodies, and its juxtaposition of numerous styles, creating "an album that draws together the sweaty live energy of an Indie rock gig with the synths and bleeps of house and electronica, along with the ever-present 80s influence and now, even a dash of 60s psychedelia thrown in for good measure." [ cite web | url= http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/music/12669/Cut-Copy-In-Ghost-Colours.htm | title= Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours review | publisher= fasterlouder.com] Lead vocalist Dan Whitford has gone on the record as saying that the sound of "In Ghost Colours" is the closest the band have come to the sound they're after:

The album is a lot more realized than the first one. I think all of us, when we think of the first one, we agree we sort of got half way there. But on the new one we got a lot closer to the sort of sounds we're after. Thereare some different aspects to it - more layered, more dynamic, as well as some moreloud, dance-y sections to it. And with the guitar there were many-layered sections aswell. It got the real highs and lows, the real floaty bits, which I think is sort of a secret toour sound, with a lot of segues so that it just sort of flows together. And I think it's a lotmore, kind of... complete. [ cite web | url= http://journals.aol.com/tixgirl/ConcertsLiveMusic/entries/2008/03/19/scene-in-ny-cut-copy-interview--sold-out-show-at-nys-mercury-lounge/2161 | last= Tixgirl | title= SCENE IN NY: Cut Copy Interview & Sold-Out Show at NY's Mercury Lounge | publisher= AOL Journals]

Pitchfork Media in its reviews stated: "If the pastichey "Bright Like Neon Love" felt more like an opportunistic patchwork quilt of other people's sounds and ideas, the hugely enjoyable "In Ghost Colours" feels light, confident, and unencumbered by the dictates of fashion." [ cite web | url= http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49916-in-ghost-colours/ | last= Pytlik | first= Mark | title= Cut Copy: "In Ghost Colours" review | publisher= Pitchfork Media]

Track listing

# "Feel the Love" – 4:28
# "Out There on the Ice" – 4:58
# "Lights and Music" – 4:37
# "We Fight for Diamonds" – 1:02
# "Unforgettable Season" – 3:13
# "Midnight Runner" – 2:33
# "So Haunted" – 4:27
# "Voices in Quartz" – 1:21
# "Hearts on Fire" – 4:53
# "Far Away" – 4:56
# "Silver Thoughts" – 0:29
# "Strangers in the Wind" – 4:44
# "Visions" – 1:10
# "Nobody Lost, Nobody Found" – 4:39
# "Eternity One Night Only" – 3:06

The UK release of the album features an additional bonus track, "Cold Youth".

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