Cut Copy announce new LP & tour, share “When This is Over”

Cut Copy returned in April with their first new music in 5 years, “Solid” and its b-side “A Decade Long Sunset,” and they’ve now announced Moments, their seventh album, which is due out on September 5 via Cutters Records/The Orchard. See the cover art and tracklist below.

“Since our last album release, 5 years have passed,” frontman Dan Whitford says. “In that time I had a child, people around me fell in and out of relationships, the world went through a global pandemic and there has been a myriad of social and political upheaval. So I guess there’s been a fair bit on my mind, and for me making this album has been a way of processing it all. Stylistically everyone in the band loved the sonic palette of the last album. It felt clean, modern and emotive, but still like Cut Copy. We tried to keep that modern approach, but turn it into something more energetic, psychedelic and euphoric; seeing how that approach could evolve and work on a dance floor, not just an ambient context… Dance music is about connecting with one another after all. Euphoria bubbles away under the surface in most of the songs and I think that’s the Cut Copy DNA shining through.”

They’ve shared another new single, “When This is Over,” which features a children’s choir from Candlebark School in Romsey VIC, conducted by Georgia Brook and recorded by Architecture in Helsinki’s James Cecil. “‘When This Is Over’ is one of those songs that instantly felt special as soon as it came into being,” Dan says. “We had talked for years about the idea of making a song featuring a children’s choir, and after writing the first half of the song in my studio on synths and a drum machine, I drove from Melbourne into the country to a primary school where a friend was a music teacher and spent a day recording a choir idea that became the basis of the second half of the song. Suddenly with the addition of the children’s voices, the song had gone from a sketch into something magical. The song is about a relationship that has started to unravel. But also a bit more globally about trying to find empathy when parties are facing in seemingly opposite directions. Over the course of the song, the mood progresses from conflict to a sort of truce-like resolution. As humans sometimes it’s hard to find common ground when hurt runs deep, but as the song says, ‘we’re more the same than you’ll ever know.’”

They’ve also announced a North American tour in November, including an NYC show at Brooklyn Steel on November 21. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 27 at 10 AM local, and you can see all dates below.

CUT COPY – MOMENTS TRACKLIST
Solid
Belong To You
Still See Love
When This Is Over
Children of Fairlight
Moments
Gravity
More Alive
Find A Place Among The Stars

CUT COPY: 2025 TOUR DATES
September 11 – Forum – Melbourne VIC
September 12 – Night At The Barracks – The Barracks Precinct, North Head Sanctuary, Sydney NSW
September 13 – Night At The Parkland, Roma S – Brisbane, QLD
October 5 – Wanderer Festival (DJ Set) – Pambula Beach NSW
November 10 – Showbox – Seattle, WA
November 11 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
November 13 – The Recency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA
November 14 – The Bellwether – Los Angeles, CA
November 16 – Corona Capital – Mexico City, MX
November 18 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
November 19 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC
November 20 – Electric City – Buffalo, NY
November 21 – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY
November 22 – Roxian Theatre – Pittsburgh, PA
November 23 – Ramova Theater – Chicago, IL
November 25 – ZeyZey (Zaku Stage) – Miami, FL