Zonoscope
by Cut Copy

Zonoscope by Cut Copy
Year: 2011
Release date: 2011-02-04
Overall rank: 5,071st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 150 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2011 (116th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (918th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,071st)

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Cut Copy bestography

Zonoscope is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Cut Copy on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Cut Copy is In Ghost Colours which is ranked number 1889 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 894.

Cut Copy album bestography « Higher ranked (1,889th)
In Ghost Colours
This album (5,071st)
Zonoscope
Lower ranked (8,558th) »
Free Your Mind

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Zonoscope track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Zonoscope rankings

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Overall rank: 5,071st | 2010s rank: 918th | 2011 rank: 116th
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2025MoondanceTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s54/1009
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 106
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 275
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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 150 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.

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60/100
From 03/13/2019 23:25 | #233478
First three tracks are legitimately the best start to any electronic album I've ever heard. Rest is mediocre.
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70/100
Some of their material makes them seem like LCD Soundsystem or Hot Chip wannabes, but there are moments where they shine through on here with some moments of divine originality and legitimately interesting music.
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75/100
From 12/28/2017 21:23 | #204053
A warm and poppy album that is always pleasant but with a few hiccups here or there.
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Unequal album. Some strong songs (Need You Know, Where I'm Going, Blink And You'll Miss...) and some weak songs (Pharaon & Pyramids, Strange Nostalgia For The Future, This Is All We've Got)

I love Hot Chip so I can't realy dislike this album...
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From 09/12/2012 15:47 | #50429
Nice music in the style of the eighties. Unfortunately the end of the album is weak.
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85/100
a lot fun. beach cruising music.
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From 01/27/2012 16:48 | #35986
The best album of 2011. I wouldn't compare it to In Ghost Colours (though that album is superior) they have different sounds. It's the sound of tribes in the city, Cut Copy found the perfect sound to bring masses of people together and make them move with bliss (you'd know what I mean if you'd ever been to one of their shows). There really isn't a bad song on here and if pushed to pick a favourite it'd be the massive 15 minute final track "Sun God" - Cut Copy weave a tune so dense and catchy and beautiful that you don't even notice how long it is. It's a pity this album hasn't got more love - it's certainly a grower (I think I've listend to it at least 13 times now and I haven't begun to get sick of it yet).
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Rating:  
80/100
I hear a lot of early 90s techno, a la psychosonic, in "zonoscope", more a broadly coherent statement than their last album. It'll be a difficult task deciding whether this is better than "in ghost colors" or not.
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5/100
From 12/14/2011 12:37 | #32925
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From 04/19/2011 10:04 | #20514
Everything sounds the same.
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