Haiku from Zero

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Haiku from Zero
Cut Copy - Haiku from Zero.png
Studio album by
Cut Copy
Released22 September 2017 (2017-09-22)
Recorded2016
StudioMaze Studios
(Atlanta, Georgia)
Genre
Length42:08
Label
Producer
Cut Copy chronology
Free Your Mind
(2013)		Haiku from Zero
(2017)		 Freeze, Melt
(2020)
Singles from Haiku From Zero
  1. "Airborne"
    Released: 6 July 2017
  2. "Standing in the Middle of the Field"
    Released: 10 August 2017
  3. "Black Rainbows"
    Released: 15 September 2017

Haiku from Zero is the fifth studio album by Australian electronic music band Cut Copy. It was released on 22 September 2017 by Cutters Records and Astralwerks. The album was produced by Dan Whitford and Ben H. Allen. It spawned three singles: "Airborne", "Standing in the Middle of the Field" and "Black Rainbows".

Contents

Background

Cut Copy worked on the album between 2014 and 2016, mostly remotely, using online file sharing to exchange ideas, [1] [2] due to the band members' dispersion to distant locations (Dan in Europe, Tim and Ben in the United States, and Mitchell in Australia). [3] They would eventually get together in 2015 to record the new material in a studio in Atlanta, Georgia. The band was joined by Ben H. Allen with whom they had already worked on Zonoscope and who would end up as the producer of the album this time around. [4] Dan Whitford said: "This is the first time we've gone into a recording studio and followed a traditional recording process in making an album". [3]

In January 2016, the band took a break from working on the album, and instead recorded an instrumental ambient material in about 10 days. It was released as January Tape in September 2016 as a limited cassette run of 400 copies. [5] In October, Dan Whitford revealed that the new album was about three quarters complete. [6]

As opposed to every previous Cut Copy album, interludes between songs are absent on Haiku from Zero. [4]

Release and promotion

"Airborne" was released as the lead single from the album on 6 July 2017, followed by its music video on 20 July. The album's title and release date was announced on 10 August 2017, alongside the release of the next single "Standing in the Middle of the Field". [7]

On 14 September, the album was made available for streaming on NPR's website, before being officially released worldwide on 22 September. [8] "Black Rainbows" subsequently served as the third single from the album. [9] Music video for "Standing in the Middle of the Field" premiered in October.

The band embarked on a tour across North America and Australia to support the album.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.7/10 [10]
Metacritic 62/100 [11]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Exclaim! 8/10 [13]
Pitchfork 6.3/10 [14]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [15]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [16]
Rolling Stone Australia Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [17]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [18]
Sputnikmusic3.3/5 [19]
Under the Radar Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [20]

Haiku from Zero received mixed to favourable reviews from professional music critics upon its initial release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 62, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally positive reviews". [11] At AnyDecentMusic?, it scored 6.7 out of 10 points, based on 12 reviews. [10]

In his review for AllMusic, Tim Sendra described Haiku from Zero as the band's "most straightforward, easy-to-swallow album yet", but also reflected that it is missing "inspiration or invention, which also means it is their least successful record yet as well." [12]

Reviewer Rudy K. of Sputnikmusic described the album's energy as "impressive; the craft, even more so", but complained that it does not have "any sense of vision", summing it up as "a bunch of great songs and little else". [19]

In a review for Exclaim! , Cam Lindsay praised the album as "another strong effort by a band that continue to celebrate the power of dance music". [13]

Track listing

Haiku from Zero track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Standing in the Middle of the Field"
  • Dan Whitford
  • Tim Hoey
5:30
2."Counting Down"
  • Whitford
  • Hoey
  • Mitchell Scott
  • Ben Browning
3:50
3."Black Rainbows"
  • Whitford
  • Hoey
4:08
4."Stars Last Me a Lifetime"
  • Whitford
  • Hoey
3:45
5."Airborne"
  • Whitford
  • Hoey
  • Browning
5:18
6."No Fixed Destination"Whitford4:13
7."Memories We Share"
  • Whitford
  • Hoey
5:02
8."Living Upside Down"
  • Whitford
  • Hoey
5:48
9."Tied to the Weather"
  • Whitford
  • Hoey
4:32
Total length:42:08

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Haiku from Zero. [21]

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [22] 59
Australian Dance Albums (ARIA) [23] 7
US Top Current Albums ( Billboard ) [24] 93
US Top Alternative Album Sales ( Billboard ) [25] 23
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard) [26] 11
US Top Rock Album Sales ( Billboard ) [27] 37

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
Australia22 September 2017
 [28] [29]
Europe
  • CD
  • LP
  • digital download
 [28] [30]
United States
 [28] [31]

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