Fans of dance music and 126 beats-per-minute (sometimes 120) got exactly what they paid for Wednesday night at the , by way of an endearingly straight-forward set from Australian indie-pop-rock-dance veterans .
Lead by the famously former-DJ Dan Whitford, Cut Copy exists in sort-of an odd place in most music fans psyche- like a really friendly acquaintance that you know you’ll never actually hang out with. Their songs are to-the-point, even memorable at times (), with stage production and lights both fittingly boiled down and functionally effective. It was, for all intensive purposes, a Cut Copy show, and though thatap far from a bad thing, itap hard to think that itap a night anyone’s going to remember (and not just because itap the week of Halloween).
The 30-ish minutes spent setting-up the stage following opener would be the only quiet moments the room would experience for the next several hours, with Cut Copy launching immediately into a well-oiled set that felt more like a DJ’s than a four-person band’s.
There were several guitar-heavy reprieves, so as to remind all of us that Cut Copy are a dance band that plays keyboards as well as guitars, with strobe-lights so bright they began to feel passive-aggressive after a while (Note: a while with a strobe light is, like, 6 seconds).
That said, Cut Copy would more than adequately deliver on all of their popular songs, particularly by way of syncopated crowd-lights during the participatory “Yeah Yeah Yeah Woos” of “Where I’m Going.” The crowd spent most of the night bouncing and head bobbing to approximately 126 beats-per minute.
Denver’s own self-proclaimed ‘electro-pop’ outfit Rose Quartz delivered a spirited opening set ahead of the Aussie headliners, the highpoint of which was a closing song featured on the band’s 2012 EP “The Flashlights EP.”
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