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Cut City - Where's The Harm In Dreams Disarmed review
It’s not often an indie rock band manages to impress. Let’s face it; most of these lo-fi garage rock/post-punk revival bands pretty much sound exactly the same as the bands they’re taking their inspiration from. So when you happen to stumble upon some Swedish, underground band being described as ‘lo-fi post-punk’, it’s hard not to make a grimace and go “d’aww, how cute! They think they’re special little snowflakes!”. Well, I’ll have to swallow my words; Where’s The Harm In Dreams Disarmed is actually an excellent piece of fuzzed-out indie rock.
Yes, we might as well just get it out of the way now. Cut City’s influences are obvious and substantial. They take inspiration from a wide variety of post-punk bands, but the most obvious influences are without a doubt Bauhaus, Echo and The Bunnymen and Joy Division (how original!). But don’t let that scare you off. Yeah, it’s pretty obvious that a song like Cults Revisited is essentially She’s Lost Control in wolf’s clothing, but when that is more or less the only misstep on the entire album, there’s a lot to love and a lot to talk about. Just like Interpol managed to do on their soon to be 10 year old debut, Cut City condense their influences into something wholly enjoyable. The excellence on display also has a lot to do with the songwriting. Where’s The Harm In Dreams Disarmed sounds – like the name would imply – dreamy, but not in a ‘cute’ way. The band’s sound is a mix between the calm and the aggressive; the somber and the noisy; the ambient and the direct. It’s a varied sound that makes you think, constantly surprises you and provides for an engaging and rewarding listen.
“So what is it that makes this album so damn good?” you might be wondering by now. It’s a fair question. Post-punk revival – like so many other movements of music – became oversaturated with bands that made little effort to distinguish themselves. If you weren’t copying Interpol, you were probably just copying some other band. It’s a damn shame, for had this album been released when the movement was at its peak, Cut City could very well have become a household name in the genre. That’s how excellent this is.
Talking about individual songs wouldn’t make much sense, as most of them segue into one another through noisy, ambient passages that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Godspeed You! Black Emperor album. But there are certainly highlights to be found. The opening track Void is downright excellent; an ambient soundscape saturates the musical landscape with noise as each instrument makes their entrance to the sound - until the bubble finally bursts; the track explodes into a gigantic wave of dreamy guitars, driving bass and high-tempo drumming. The track passes by in an instant, overwhelming you and leaving you with a giant smile on your face. Thankfully, not every track on the album is quite as intense as Void. Some of the best tracks are the slower, less pummeling tracks like A Modest Recovery that basically sounds like Editors – but better (and noisier) – and The Kids Of Masochism High, perhaps the best track on the entire album. But whether Cut City decide to play fast or slow, dreamy or dreary, light or heavy, doesn’t make a difference: they manage to grip your attention right away and they grip it tightly for the duration of the almost perfectly paced 43 minutes on display. After smashing its way through 8 excellent tracks, the album finishes off with class; a 10 minute, 3 part song closes the album off, sending a cascade of dreamy noise through your speakers for 5 minutes before disappearing, leaving only the same noise playing that started the album. It has come full circle. Sadly, I almost feel like it should’ve been longer.
Behold! The year is 2011 and we may have an AOTY contender on our hands. Cut City have managed the seemingly impossible. They have written a post-punk album that manages to sound old and fresh at the same time. Like their fellow Scandinavian friends in Iceage, they embrace everything that made post-punk such a good genre, but they put their own spin on it and, most importantly, they do it with confidence. If you enjoy post-punk, this is an album you need to hear – now.
Posted on August 22, 2012 | Permalink
Cut City official release date.
Cut City - Where's The Harm In Dreams Disarmed will be released on the 28th of August.
This project has taken such a long time for us to produce... it's almost ridiculous but now it's finally time for the last recording from the Gothenburg quartet Cut City to be released.
We are so proud of this one and we hope you all will find it worth waiting for!
All pre-orders will be sent out this week!
Cheers,
dLTD Crew
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Posted on August 21, 2012 | Permalink
WTHIDD Up for pre-order
Cut City long awaited second full length album 'Where's The Harm In Dreams Disarmed' is finally available for pre-order.
Head over to cutcity.bigcartel.com to pre-order your copy of “Where’s The Harm In Dreams Disarmed”. It’ll be shipped to the pressing plant very soon and it will be pressed in a limited run of 300 copies so to make sure you end up with one of your own go there right this minute.
There are two different kinds of pre-orders: one for the nice people who bought the album digitally and helped making this vinyl version happen and one for the equally nice people who’ve waited patiently and couldn’t care less for mp3/wav/flac-files. Difference is just a discount for the people who fronted us money. No biggie.
Posted on February 16, 2012 | Permalink
Cut City - WTHIDD
Alright! So.. we are close now! Album, LP version out soon. We are SOON announcing it for pre-order.
» http://www.deletedart.org/releases.asp?id=49
Posted on February 14, 2012 | Permalink
Cut City review
It’s not often an indie rock band manages to impress. Let’s face it; most of these lo-fi garage rock/post-punk revival bands pretty much sound exactly the same as the bands they’re taking their inspiration from. So when you happen to stumble upon some Swedish, underground band being described as ‘lo-fi post-punk’, it’s hard not to make a grimace and go “d’aww, how cute! They think they’re special little snowflakes!”. Well, I’ll have to swallow my words; Where’s The Harm In Dreams Disarmed is actually an excellent piece of fuzzed-out indie rock.
Yes, we might as well just get it out of the way now. Cut City’s influences are obvious and substantial. They take inspiration from a wide variety of post-punk bands, but the most obvious influences are without a doubt Bauhaus, Echo & The Bunnymen and Joy Division (how original!). But don’t let that scare you off. Yeah, it’s pretty obvious that a song like Cults Revisited is essentially She’s Lost Control in wolf’s clothing, but when that is more or less the only misstep on the entire album, there’s a lot to love and a lot to talk about. Just like Interpol managed to do on their soon to be 10 year old debut, Cut City condense their influences into something wholly enjoyable. The excellence on display also has a lot to do with the songwriting. Where’s The Harm In Dreams Disarmed sounds – like the name would imply – dreamy, but not in a ‘cute’ way. The band’s sound is a mix between the calm and the aggressive; the somber and the noisy; the ambient and the direct. It’s a varied sound that makes you think, constantly surprises you and provides for an engaging and rewarding listen.
“So what is it that makes this album so damn good?” you might be wondering by now. It’s a fair question. Post-punk revival – like so many other movements of music – became oversaturated with bands that made little effort to distinguish themselves. If you weren’t copying Interpol, you were probably just copying some other band. It’s a damn shame, for had this album been released when the movement was at its peak, Cut City could very well have become a household name in the genre. That’s how excellent this is.
Talking about individual songs wouldn’t make much sense, as most of them segue into one another through noisy, ambient passages that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Godspeed You! Black Emperor album. But there are certainly highlights to be found. The opening track Void is downright excellent; an ambient soundscape saturates the musical landscape with noise as each instrument makes their entrance to the sound - until the bubble finally bursts; the track explodes into a gigantic wave of dreamy guitars, driving bass and high-tempo drumming. The track passes by in an instant, overwhelming you and leaving you with a giant smile on your face. Thankfully, not every track on the album is quite as intense as Void. Some of the best tracks are the slower, less pummeling tracks like A Modest Recovery that basically sounds like Editors – but better (and noisier) – and The Kids Of Masochism High, perhaps the best track on the entire album. But whether Cut City decide to play fast or slow, dreamy or dreary, light or heavy, doesn’t make a difference: they manage to grip your attention right away and they grip it tightly for the duration of the almost perfectly paced 43 minutes on display. After smashing its way through 8 excellent tracks, the album finishes off with class; a 10 minute, 3 part song closes the album off, sending a cascade of dreamy noise through your speakers for 5 minutes before disappearing, leaving only the same noise playing that started the album. It has come full circle. Sadly, I almost feel like it should’ve been longer.
Behold! The year is 2011 and we may have an AOTY contender on our hands. Cut City have managed the seemingly impossible. They have written a post-punk album that manages to sound old and fresh at the same time. Like their fellow Scandinavian friends in Iceage, they embrace everything that made post-punk such a good genre, but they put their own spin on it and, most importantly, they do it with confidence. If you enjoy post-punk, this is an album you need to hear – now.
VERDICT: Excellent. Essential listening for fans of indie and post-punk
-D
Posted on November 24, 2011 | Permalink
Where's The Harm In Dreams Disarmed
Is up on both ITunes and Spotify, Enjoy!
Posted on June 21, 2011 | Permalink
Cut City includes a fans "thank you"-list in vinyl version of new lp.
Words taken from the bands homepage.
Credit where credit’s due
Once again, thank you! It seems like more people than we expected are willing to pay for digital music. That’s awesome! We want to take the opportunity to give a little something back to all the people who’ve supported us so far (and those to come).
If don’t want to lie on your deathbed forty/fifty/sixty years from now wishing you could have been on the “thank you”-list on a swedish postpunk bands last album’s vinyl issue, then now’s your chance. All of the people who’ve bought the digital version of WTHIDD will have their name written in big bold letters (or small thin ones if there’s too many of you) on the back inner sleeve of the vinyl version. We don’t know exactly when we’re shipping this to the printers but if you want gloat to your friends and want them to be able to read your name on the album with a big “Thank You” to it then here’s your chance.
Some people might say that we’re conning people into buying their personal ad space on our record. They would be right. Other people might say that this is a great way of supporting your favorite band. They’re also right. Even more so we think. But it’s up to you. We’re forever in debt to all of you already and we couldn’t be much more lucky with the nice army of fans that we have.
If you have bought the album and for some reason don’t want your name on the album (“I want to stay off the radar, no paper trail, fuck you…”) just let us know and we’ll expunge your name from our permanent records!
Xoxo
» http://wherestheharm.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/credit-where-credits-due/
Posted on June 14, 2011 | Permalink
'Where's The Harm In Dreams Disarmed' OUT NOW!
Cut City's long avaited second album 'Where's the harm in dreams disarmed' is finally available digital. We are hoping to see the physical format very soon! But for now... enjoy!
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Posted on June 7, 2011 | Permalink
Cut City, Band of the Month
Cut City is over but people are still putting the band in the spotlight which is very nice!
Recently (September) the band was voted to be the band of the month at Futureindiemusic.blogspot.com
Much appretiations to you!
Posted on October 20, 2010 | Permalink
Cut City - Sound & Sore track
Cut City's latest song 'The Sound & The Sore' uploaded on our Myspace player. This is the first completed track from their upcoming album 'Where's the Harm In Dreams Disarmed'.
Sadly... this album will probably be their last.
You can also download the track here: [URL]
Here are some lines from their open letter.
Hey all,
We’ll wrap up Where’s The Harm In Dreams Disarmed in a month or so, probably two or three months. After that we’ll lay the band to rest for a while, possibly forever. Where’s The Harm… will most likely be our last testament. We all feel that the songs are the best shit we’ve ever written. Don’t know how the final master will sound but I’m sure it’ll be great. Kristian Anttila, who produced Exit Decades, will man the board this time too. We’re happy about that.
Posted on June 22, 2010 | Permalink
Cut City - Narcissus Can Wait
Allright so... we only have 20 copies left of the Narcissus Can Wait Ep and i if you have had any thoughts about getting it... now the time would be right. NO re-presses will be made! 20 to go and then gone forever!
Posted on February 23, 2010 | Permalink
Narcissus Can Wait 12"EP shipping now
Just received the shipment and we'll be sending out all the pre-orders asap. Buy one copy for yourself and one for your depressed buddy!
Posted on March 25, 2009 | Permalink
Narcissus Can Wait available for Pre-order!
The long avaited Narcissus Can Wait 12" by Cut City is available for pre-order! Visit the Deleted Store to reserve a copy! [URL]
Posted on March 3, 2009 | Permalink
Cut City new fullength album
Cut City is in the process of writing an new fullength album. Out!... who knows!?
Posted on February 17, 2009 | Permalink
Narcissus Can Wait digital download available now!
We couldnt hold it back any longer.
The upcoming 'Narcissus Can Wait' ep by Cut City is available as digital download from now on via Klicktrack.com
For all of you who is waiting for the vinyl version (like me), sorry but you have to wait some more. Enjoy!
Direct link to album; [URL]
Posted on February 3, 2009 | Permalink
Cut City digital release available now!
dLTD032 Cut City - Replacement (digital single)
Early 2008 this song was originally released on a split 7" with San Clemente's Cat Party on german imprint Monoton Studio. Now also available as download via Deleted Art.
[URL]
Posted on February 2, 2009 | Permalink
Narcissus Can Wait on myspace
All five songs from Cut City's upcoming Narcissus Can Wait 12" is up on myspace. Vinyl out in a few weeks!
Posted on January 20, 2009 | Permalink
Cut City cancel European tour
Cut City had to cancel their European tour because of health problems. And because of that we need to postpone their upcoming ep for a while. We have no dates set for the release yet but hopefully it wont take that long.
In the meantime you should check out their new split seven inch with San Clemente´s Cat Party on Monoton Studios. Will be out anytime soon...
Posted on March 26, 2008 | Permalink
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