Drop It in Their Laps by The Cops

Drop It in Their Laps, the Cops' second album, came out in April 2007 on their new label, Inertia Recordings, and it's a sharp swerve away from what they'd done before. The band pitched it as a sprawling pop and rock record that gathered the best of the 80 in the Shade EP with songs cut in the year before release. Singer and songwriter Simon Carter co-produced with Paul McKercher, known for his work with You Am I and Augie March, and Magoo and Kim Moyes of the Presets picked up smaller production credits.

It was recorded at Electric Avenue Studios, mixed at Studios 301 in Sydney and mastered by Chris Gehringer at Sterling Sound in New York, and it sounds polished and widescreen, the indie rock edges buffed into big, bright hooks. "The Message" leads the charge. It spent two weeks on the ARIA Albums Chart that May, peaking at No. 59.

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