Cut Copy

Ghost colours

Cut Copy formed in Melbourne in 2001 around Dan Whitford, a DJ and graphic designer who studied at Monash University and co-founded the design agency Alter, which makes the band's graphics. Whitford said the name came from a random moment in his computer's edit menu. They signed to Modular in 2001, released a vinyl-only debut single "1981" and the EP I Thought of Numbers (September 10, 2001), played their live debut at the Livid festival before 5,000 people in 2003 and added Tim Hoey and Mitchell Scott that year. Bright Like Neon Love (April 5, 2004) was mixed in Paris with Philippe Zdar of Cassius and his team, and Bennett Foddy left for a PhD. In 2005 they made their first international tour supporting Franz Ferdinand, The Presets, Bloc Party and Mylo, and in 2006 mixed FabricLive.29.

In Ghost Colours (March 22, 2008 in Australia) went to number 1 on the ARIA albums chart and Gold, spawned "Hearts on Fire" (May 26, 2007), "Lights & Music" (February 19, 2008) and "Far Away", and was Pitchfork's fourth best album of 2008. Zonoscope followed on February 4, 2011, largely recorded in a Melbourne warehouse, ARIA album of the year nominee and a 2012 Grammy nominee for best dance/electronica album; Free Your Mind (November 1, 2013), Haiku from Zero (September 22, 2017), Freeze, Melt (August 21, 2020, mixed by Christoffer Berg in Gothenburg) and Moments (September 5, 2025) followed. January Tape (September 30, 2016) was an ambient cassette run of 400, and the 2022 box set Collected Works 2001-2011 sold its first 1,000 of 2,000 copies in eight hours. Whitford also records as Hypernatural, with an album on January 14, 2022, and Browning released the EP Lover Motion in March 2012.

Setlist.fm lists about 638 setlists, recently including Live at the Gardens in Melbourne on March 13, 2026, CRSSD in San Diego on March 15 and BottleRock Napa on May 24. NPR Music broadcast a concert from Le Poisson Rouge in New York on November 26, 2013.