Brief review: Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

I just got the chance to download Cut Copy's latest album - In Ghost Colours, and I've been listening to it at least once a day for the last several days. This is one of the best complete albums that I've heard in a long time. Its not the most groundbreaking or even the most exciting album that I've heard lately, but it is just so solid - even more impressive given the fact that Cut Copy is treading so close to so many acts/genres and yet manage to completely own their sound. It is this poised confidence that in a way allows me to just relax and enjoy the music, which is masterfully interwoven with pretty much every element of good electronic music lately. Hats off to Cut Copy - I am planning on making a rare public appearance at their Urban Lounge show in SLC on May 2nd.

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Slug Review: Cursed

Megavore has been granted temporary anonymous status as an official SLUG reviewer.  They had me review Cursed's latest album, III:

Cursed = Cast Iron Hike, Cobra Noir, Converge

Cursed know how to brand woebegone hardcore. They are skilled in the ways of subversively satanic iconography, immoral typeface, and the “I should probably go to therapy cause I’m so messed up but instead I make creepy music” schtick. Moreover, they've maintained a keen awareness of nuanced hardcore authenticity that has elitists like me slowly nodding with approval. On III, Cursed plug in their Voxs, crawl into a dark (and probably totally haunted) basement, and cough up some thick and dirty audio. They’ve toned down their sometimes silly caricature-like horror aesthetic, and the cocksure hardcore rockabilly swagger of previous albums in place of a more no-nonsense, concentrated demonstration of a multifarious antipathy that is (perhaps at times too) reminiscent of Converge. I feel like Cursed is leading me further into their (still totally haunted) mansion of sound, and there are rooms yet worth exploring.