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That Was Just A Dream

Composer: Whitford


That Was Just A Dream		2:33

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Hearts On Fire 7/15/2008

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Bright Like Neon Love Modular / Interscope 2/14/2006 Recommended Tracks A Dream Bright Neon Payphone The Twilight	60px;'>Currently 4/5 Stars.

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Show Track Metadata

ALBUM_ID	688199
TRACK_NAME	That Was Just A Dream
COMPOSER	Whitford
TRACK_NUMBER	7
RUN_TIME	2:33
TRACK_ID	7025586
ALBUM_TITLE	Bright Like Neon Love
ARTIST_NAME	Cut Copy
SEARCH_NAME	Cut Copy
RATED	7
GENRE_DESCRIPTION	Electronica
FLAGS	L
SPIRALFROG_AVAILABLE	Yes
OFFICAL_LENGTH	0:02:33
SITE_REVIEW	The Australian dance-pop group Cut Copy, fronted by multi-instrumentalist/DJ/graphic designer Dan Whitford, ends their stellar debut album with "A Dream," a mellow come down from a record scattershot with retro-dance and rock ideas fitted together with ebullient grooves. Perhaps it would have been better served as an introduction to what is such a free flowing, unrestrained electronic dance record. Bright Like Neon Love -- and by extension Whitford -- is so enamored with simple ideals of dance music, it feels like a dreamy, unconscious state of hypnotic rhythms designed purely for easy listening. Conversely, in no way does this strong rookie effort ever really test the listener -- rarely does Whitford expand beyond the confines of catchy synth loops and simplistic, manipulated vocals -- but as a perfectionist of the pop music craft, any one of these nine main tracks (there are two interludes; and "That Was Just a Dream" and "Zap Zap" are really just one song) could have appeared on a Kylie or Madonna record as sure-fire hit singles. At times the rock star in Whitford seems to supersede the '80s pop fanatic, most notably the infectious synth-meets-guitars riff on "Going Nowhere," the largely instrumental "The Twilight" and the near alternative rock/post-grunge of "Bright Neon Payphone," yet the album's greatest strength is how Whitford remains on an even keel throughout, almost melting down his favorite rock and dance elements to their most simplistic state to make them more palatable. As jarring as switching from synths to guitars can be, Bright Like Neon Love remains consistently a pop record. The lyrics and vocals also play a major factor in making Cut Copy's sound so easy on the ears, as Whitford tends to not sing with much voracity or even mild interest. On "Saturdays," he barely even mutters the rather inane opening lines "When I'm looking for you/I call your number but I can't get through" before the synth-vocoder backing vocals kick in (a common inclusion throughout the album) and the song transforms from a more effervescent version of Stardust's "Music Sounds Better with You" to an uncontained explosion of fuzzy synths, handclaps, and sampled loops. The only other moment on this record that equals the untethered fun of the aforementioned songs' second half is the thumping transition into "Zap Zap," which serves as the album's major landmark. Propelled by rapidly moving phase changes and synth vocals, it's Whitford's only true "DJ" moment on the record -- as he finds the perfect beat and feels content to bask in it for over a couple of minutes. ~ Erik Leijon, All Music Guide
ARTIST_ID	653503
UPC	00898926000125
ISRC	AUMP00400063
VOLUME	1
SIZE_OF_FILE	2498043
ASSOCIATEDISRC
LABEL	Modular/Interscope
LABEL_GROUP	UMG
Genre	Pop
ExplicitLyrics	No

media	label
CD	Modular
CD	Island
CD	Island
CD	Modular
CD	Modular / Interscope

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