Cut Copy – When This Is Over
Cut Copy aren’t done making the dancefloor feel like a therapy session — and ‘When This Is Over’, the latest single from their upcoming album Moments (out September 5 via Cutters Records), proves they’ve still got plenty to process. After five years, the Melbourne veterans return with a track that floats between breakup song and group hug — complete with a children’s choir.
Yes, really. A literal children’s choir from Candlebark School in rural Australia carries the second half of this song. It’s a concept the band had long flirted with. Initially built on Dan Whitford’s synths and drum machine patterns, the track evolves from conflict to reconciliation. “We’re more the same than you’ll ever know,” they sing, offering unity as a kind of surrender.
Thematically, ‘When This Is Over’ sketches the unravelling of a relationship but zooms out to explore disconnection on a broader scale — fractured communities, pandemic-era tension, parallel heartbreaks. Yet, it never leans into despair. Instead, the mood is psychedelic, euphoric, almost hopeful. According to Whitford, the band loved the clean, emotive feel of their last album (Freeze, Melt) but wanted to “see how that approach could evolve and work on a dancefloor.”
The result? A rich sonic palette that maintains their DNA — airy synths, understated grooves, melodic nostalgia — but injects new life through bold gestures like choirs and guitar bursts.
Moments is Cut Copy’s seventh album and their most intimate in years. Life happened — Whitford became a parent, relationships changed, and the world did its worst — but music remained the processing tool of choice through it all.
Tracklist:
- Solid
- Belong To You
- Still See Love
- When This Is Over
- Children Of Fairlight
- Moments
- Gravity
- More Alive
- Find A Place Among The Stars
