Electro wunderkinds Cut Copy have revealed the title and album artwork for their third album, which will be entitled Zonoscope. The follow up to the 2008’s In Ghost Colours is due to be released in early February. It also features art a cover that uses a montage by the late Japanese photographic artist Tsunehisa Kimura of New York City being engulfed by a waterfall.
Since Americans tend to be a bit touchy these days about alterations to the New York skyline, it’s hard to see this cover being stocked in a Walmart in Buttfuck, Idaho. Kimura was also responsible for the cover of Midnight Oil’s classic 1984 album Red Sails In The Sunset which featured an apocalyptic vision of the Sydney Opera House.
Cutters’ Tim Hoey told Spin Magazine that the band’s current sound was reflected in the image. “We certainly are using all sorts of electronic instruments, more synthesizers, computers, all of that, but contrasted with more organic sounds, more organic percussion,” he revealed. “Since [frontman] Dan [Whitford] came across the image a few months ago, he’s stuck with it, and thought that it summed up what we wanted to get across.”
Have a listen to the first track off Zonoscope
