Cut Copy’s new album, In Ghost Colours, is discotheque
perfection—dizzy, delirious dance rock, alternately
euphoric and melancholy, with more than a hint of New Order at their
ecstatic electronic peak. Lead singer Dan Whitford’s soft crooning
floats on thick, pulsing bass that occasionally wanders up the
frets, live and programmed drumming, washed-out guitars, and
glittering synth arpeggios. Live, they are mission control,
orchestrating audience liftoff with nary a problem. With last
year’s great blog hope Black Kids and the dependably bittersweet Mobius
Band. (Neumo’s, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $15, 21+.)