Produced by the band's vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Dan Whitford, "Zonoscope" will be released Feb. 8 in North America on CD, deluxe CD and 2-disc vinyl. The deluxe CD and iTunes deluxe edition of Cut Copy's third collection will admit a new cut of the Krozm-directed documentary "Artificial Interpreter," featuring footage not previewed on the Web episodes found on Cut Copy's website.
In addition, the deluxe CD will occur in a special Alter-designed box.
The iTunes pre-order for "Zonoscope" (both even and deluxe versions) is now underway, and those who pre-order will find a previously unreleased mix of the low single, "Take Me Over."
Hoey, who is also linked in the ring by drummer Mitchell Scott, spoke to SoundSpike about "Zonoscope;" the album's cover - which features New York City engulfed in a waterfall, created by the late Japanese photomontage artist Tsunehisa Kimura - and his deft interview skills.
SoundSpike: You must be excited about your new album coming out early next year.
Tim Hoey: We finished it probably two months ago. We finished mixing. It's been ruined for a short while. We finished writing it around June. We were mixing it in Atlanta in July/August. We're getting mad for other people to see it.
How does the low single, "Take Me Over," compare to the residue of the album?
I mean it's indicative of the album. It's really often a part of the gravel without giving out the entire picture. I guess it's one of the more pure form of pop moments on the album. We used a lot of percussion on that track, organic and synthetic. I think that's the subject that runs through that record. Maybe something that ties the song together. It's always really tough just releasing one track. The whole idea for us each sentence is to make a disc that you can listen to go to finish. We see it very hard to sort [the songs]. The songs gives an indication of where the album is going, but there's a lot more to come.
Tell me around the track for "Zonoscope." It's an interesting image.
Yeah, I imagine we came across that image while we were recording the album. It's an see that stuck with us. It's this figure of the New York skyline being overtaken by this waterfall. It's very much a man made monument overtaken by a natural phenomena. We sort of saw that as a way of representing what the album was saying. Instead of it being a post-apocalyptic image, we saw it as something very calming, and it sort of created this new man which is our whole idea with the record. We view it was very voice of that and the coming together of man made synthetic elements and organic elements. That was really much what the album was about sonically as well. We sort of thinking it worked on many levels, not to note just being a beautiful image.
How did you come up with the key of the album?
"Zonoscope" is the bird's eye perspective of the man we created. It's the lens that is exploited to see this world. That was sort of one idea. It's also the list of the tool that we created from scratch. If we were stuck for ideas, we would use the Zonoscope on a call and we'd see it take shape.
Did you ask your last album, "In Ghost Colours," to be the breakthrough album for Cut Copy?
Um, I don't know. It's hard to say. We were very proud of that record when we finished it. We were very happy with it. But everything that happens after that feels really sort of at its end. We were very glad that all Cut Copy fans liked it and so maybe getting some new fans as well. Everybody measures success kind of differently and for us our goals are always artistic ones. Once we've reached those we can look truly happy with where we are and everything that happens after that is sort of a bit of a bonus.
So you just came second from New York and Los Angeles? What did you do while you were here?
Yeah we were concluded there for almost a week and a half doing a lot of iron and shot a new television and stuff like that. It was a whirlwind kind of trip.
Did you do the picture for "Take Me Over"?
No, it's actually for the following single that's coming out in January. We worked with this director, Keith Schofield, who we're very big fans of. We wanted to operate with him for a long time. So we had an absolute blast working with him in L.A. Hopefully the clip turns out OK. It was a lot of fun.
What was the list of the song?
I'm not certain if I'm allowed to say yet. I ever get into trouble whenever I do interviews. I'm always giving out information that I'm not alleged to throw away. I'm not yet sure if I'm allowed to say yet.
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