Cut Copy have shared a new track entitled “Belong to You,” the fourth and final single from their seventh studio album Moments to be released before it drops in full this Friday via Cutters Records/The Orchard. The track, which features songwriter Kate Bollinger, is an upbeat, disco-leaning pop cut filled with plucky synths, handclaps, absolutely crucial steel drum fills, and also absolutely crucial pedal steel melodies.
“Even as an instrumental, it immediately felt like a pop song waiting to happen,” the band’s Dan Whitford said. “The song is written about a guy who obsesses about past mistakes without realizing that the love he’s searching for has been right in front of him all along. The song has a wistful romantic quality to it so we thought it could be cool to do the song as a duet to emphasise that. And around the time we were working on this song, a friend introduced us to Kate Bollinger who is an amazing LA singer and songwriter. So we asked her to try a little vocal idea and that’s how the song took shape.
“When I heard Kate’s voice in the track it sounded amazing,” he continued. “I could almost imagine it as some kind of sci-fi country love song, so to bring that energy to it, we asked ‘Evil’ Graham Lee (from legendary Australian band The Triffids) to provide his signature pedal steel sound. And that was the final piece of the puzzle that gave the song its magical finishing touch. Cut Copy hasn’t worked with outside performers too many times in the past. But it was a real treat to work with two artists that come from such different places musically, but complimented each other perfectly on this song.”
Check out “Belong to You” below, and pre-order Moments here.
