It’s been a good year for the Cut Copy boys, who’ve been spending much of 2011 touring in support of their latest album, Zonoscope. Their travelling roadshow brought the Aussies to Brooklyn last night, where they closed out the Celebrate Brooklyn! Summer concert series with a sold out show at the Prospect Park Bandshell. We caught up with lead singer Dan Whitford before the band's set to talk about their success, New York City, and plans for the future.

If Roland Emmerich’s 2012 and Christopher Nolan’s Inception had a baby—and supposing that baby was born as an album cover—it would be the artwork for pop four-piece Cut Copy’s Zonoscope. Created by the late Japanese artist Tsunehisa Kimura, the surreal photo-montage depicts a New York skyline ravaged by a menacing, Brobdingnagian, end-of-days-y waterfall. “The image relates back to this world we’ve been playing with on Zonoscope, which is a dreamlike combination of something familiar—New York City—and something faraway and imagined,” says Cut Copy’s lead singer Dan Whitford, who spent considerable time and energy securing the rights to the piece for their third album.

Four years after the release of their first LP, Bright Like Neon Love, Cut Copy released In Ghost Colours to a wave of blog praise and indie-kid adoration. (They rode it all the way to a coffee shop for a quick chat.)

Last night, when Australian dance rock outfit Cut Copy took the stage just after 11 p.m. at Studio B in Greenpoint, we found ourselves front row, center. Such is the pleasure of going to a concert alone—criss-crossing through the masses to get up front ain’t no thang when you’re a loner. Their album In Ghost Colours is a dance-rock sensation. The crowd ecstatically shouting all the lyrics can attest to that fact—it was U2 for club kids. With our buzz decreasing and our bladder increasing, we waited for a lull in the band’s set (never came) to drain and refill.

If blending indie-rock and electronica is to the second half of this decade what mashing up metal and hip-hop was to the first, then consider Australia’s Cut Copy the new Limp Bizkit. Er, that was supposed to be a compliment...