[News] CUT COPY ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND HEADLINE TOUR

After returning earlier this year with their highly-anticipated, fifth studio album Haiku From Zero, featuring globally adored singles ‘Airborne’, ‘Standing In The Middle of the Field’ and ‘Black Rainbows’, pioneering electronic act Cut Copy today announce an Australian & New Zealand headline tour, set for January 2018.

The band’s first release in four years, Haiku From Zero was written and recorded at studios around the world, from Melbourne, to Copenhagen, Washington DC, New York and Atlanta. Produced by Ben Allen, credited to tuning the releases of Deer Hunter and Animal Collective, Haiku From Zero is Cut Copy’s arguably most sonically diverse, astutely curated record of their career. Leaning away from the Balearic and acid house textures of 2013’s Free Your Mind LP, the impending release nods towards Afro beat, dubby rhythm sections and colourful, expansive synths found in a disco era of yesteryear.

This beauty in collision carries across into the band’s live aesthetic and sonic identity. Marrying electro-pop with the fleshed out sensibilities of an indie rock band, Cut Copy have firmly carved their own as an amalgam of the two – an act that has performed on the biggest festival stages and headline venues across the world, from Coachella, Ultra and Lollapalooza in the U.S.; Primavera in Spain, Pitchfork in Paris; Summer Sonic in Japan; and Splendour in the Grass in Australia.

Earlier this year, the band performed two massive headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney, selling out both. Unleashing a wave of nostalgia onto Sydney’s Metro Theatre and Melbourne’s The Croxton, the quartet played a calibre of Cut Copy favourites spanning the last decade including ‘Need You Now’, ‘Future’ and ‘Free Your Mind’. The band are now finally ready to showcase their most dynamic release to date. 

AUS TOUR DATES 2018

Thursday, January 18 – The Met, Brisbane QLD 

Friday, January 19 – Wollongong Uni Bar NSW 

Saturday, January 20 – Sugar Mountain Festival, Melbourne VIC 

Thursday, January 25 – Manning Bar, Sydney NSW 

Saturday, January 27 – Melbourne Zoo Twilights, VIC 

NZ TOUR DATES 2018

Wednesday, January 24 – The Studio, Auckland NZ