| Haiku from Zero | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Cut Copy |
| Cover: | Cut Copy - Haiku from Zero.png |
| Border: | yes |
| Recorded: | 2016 |
| Studio: | Maze Studios (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| Length: | 42:08 |
| Prev Title: | Free Your Mind |
| Prev Year: | 2013 |
| Next Title: | Freeze, Melt |
| Next Year: | 2020 |
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".
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]
"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.