[1] The band achieved breakthrough success in 2008 with their second album, In Ghost Colours, which included well-known singles "Lights & Music" and "Hearts on Fire".

[6][7] With Howard filling in on guitar, Whitford asked his childhood friend Bennett Foddy to join on bass with the view to release an EP.

[8] In 2003, Howard was replaced by Tim Hoey, a student at the Victoria College of Art after he and Whitford began exchanging demo tapes.

[2] Drummer Mitchell Scott joined shortly after, explaining that "we were just in the same circle of friends, and Tim was sort of roped in because he could play guitar and Dan's sampler had actually broken down, which kind of brought on the need to find a new way of thinking about a live show".

[10] Prior to Hoey and Scott joining, a Cut Copy performance was essentially Whitford together with Joel McKenzie doing a DJ set that included sampling their own material.

[7][11] Whitford began working on the band's debut album in early 2003 and had written half a dozen songs when during a DJ gig, one of their samplers broke down.

[12] In April 2004, Cut Copy released their debut LP Bright Like Neon Love to moderate success, supported by the singles "Future" and "Saturdays".

[19] In May 2007, the band decided to play a small Australian tour while Modular Recordings released the single "Hearts on Fire" digitally and on vinyl.

In July 2010, radio station Triple J broadcast the teaser track "Where I'm Going" ahead of Cut Copy's third album, Zonoscope, which drew inspirations from the early 1980s.

[31] In July, the band performed to an audience of 25,000 people at the Camp Bisco festival in Mariaville Lake, New York, and in September played the Virgin Mobile FreeFest in Columbia, Maryland, US.

In March 2012, bassist Ben Browning released his debut solo EP Lover Motion on Cut Copy's Cutters Records imprint.

In early September 2013, the full version of the title track to their fourth album Free Your Mind debuted at six specific locations worldwide.

Fans were informed that they could visit selected billboards in Mexico, Chile, Australia, two locations in the US (Detroit, and California) and one in the UK at Blaneau Gwent in South Wales.

The music video for "Free Your Mind", directed by Christopher Hill and released in October 2013, stars Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård as a cult leader.

[10] The album Free Your Mind was released on 1 November 2013, reaching the top 20 in Australia, but meeting with minor success in the UK and US charts.

After rehearsals in Nashville, Cut Copy embarked on a world tour of North and South America through to Europe and Russia.

[10] The music video for "We Are Explorers" premiered in February 2014, followed by the release of the vinyl single "In These Arms of Love" for Record Store Day.

Despite this, it turned out Cut Copy's least commercially successful album since their debut Bright Like Neon Love, peaking outside the top 50 in Australia and failing to enter general charts elsewhere.

[40] Freeze, Melt was produced by bandleader Dan Whitford and mixed by Christoffer Berg known for his work with The Knife and Fever Ray at Svenska Grammofon Studion in Gothenburg, Sweden.