"The label had quite grand plans for who they wanted us to work with," says Mitchell Scott, drummer with Australian electro-pop trio Cut Copy. "They were throwing around names like Timbaland and Nellee Hooper, all these bigshot producers.

"That wasn't really our cup of tea. We wanted to keep it as our own thing as much as we could, rather than have someone else put their own stamp on it.

"So we ended up putting together a list of producers we'd be happy to work with and Tim Goldsworthy was at the top of that list."

One half of the celebrated DFA production team, Goldsworthy was at the controls for this year's Hercules & Love Affair album and has previously worked on records by David Holmes, The Rapture and the superior first incarnation of school-friend James Lavelle's Unkle project.

The resulting record, In Ghost Colours, repeats its predecessor's trick of being simultaneously wistful and danceable, with influences ranging from Italo disco and New Order, to Sonic Youth and 10CC. Instant and melodic, closer listens reveal a delightfully inventive array of layers and textures lurking beneath the surface.

"That's something we really made a point of during the recording process," Scott explains. "Tim was keen for us to try it out as well and we were happy to oblige.

"The first record 2004's Bright Like Neon Love was quite layered. But we only had half-a-day in the studio, whereas we had six weeks this time. Also, we were working with someone with a lot more studio know-how than we had before."

The band recently completed a three-week trip across the States, co-headlining with Black Kids, during which Scott discovered the joys of travelling on a tour bus - "you actually get to sleep properly" - and the band were pleasantly surprised by In Ghost Colours debuting at number one in the Australian charts.

Tonight's gig is part of a mini-tour which also incorporates DJ dates and festival appearances, including an eventful visit to Glastonbury.

"It is a wild one," he laughs. "It seems like half the town works on the festival in some capacity. You get the feeling a lot of them don't really know what they're doing. It's like the lunatics running the asylum.

"We were given bad directions and ended up driving through the lane between the food stalls behind the main stage. It's the one place where they'd laid down metal sheeting, so everyone was trying to walk there.

"There was mud 3ft deep either side. People were banging on the car, shouting F*** you', wanting to fight us.

"Then we got bogged down and a guy helped us out. He got us moving, then fell face down into the mud. We just had to drive away, giving him a congratulatory thumbs-up."

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