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Two Door Cinema Club

Tourist History

Label: Kitsuné/Co-op

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It is a British tradition to build them up then knock them down. Susan Boyle, Victoria Beckham, the list goes on. The issue comes when a faceless corporation builds them up and the ordinary punter has to knock them down. If an ordinary punter isn't available, then a select few writers have the odd pleasure. Hit or miss? Make or break? Indie or schmindie? We're not worthy. No really, we're not.

Indeed this is more than the point here. For every note of danceable foot-tapping indie-pop that seeps out of this, someone somewhere will flag the polished production and lack of message. Indeed, if you worship at the altar of artistic finery and 'independent' music then this will be a sad indictment of modern music, or something of a guilty pleasure. This is the new breed of albums that sound like single collections and, my god, lots of people will love it.

So who are the Two Door Cinema Club? Reel off the names of the band (Trimble, Baird, Halliday) and its clear they're from Northern Ireland. Formed in Bangor in 2007 they have thus far released three singles and one E.P. under the Kitsuné label. Tourist History is their first full-lengther at well over…thirty minutes.

What do they sound like? A heady sugary mix of Artic Monkeys, The Kaiser Chiefs, We Are Scientists, Bloc Party, The Hoosiers, The Futureheads, Franz Ferdinand,…,this list goes on too. Above everything else, these three lads sound like, well, Two Door Cinema Club. It'll take a bit of time before we know what this means. Indeed, carving out their own identity is going to be the biggest challenge.

The eagle-eyed reader will have noticed that this review hasn't mentioned a single track yet, and is almost over. Nevertheless, you know already what these guys sound like. Melody filled, bass-driven, indie-pop. Every tracks a winner. Nuff said.

Is this being rated or slated? As said earlier, we're not worthy. Really, we're not. Sometimes you get an album with a life of its own, escaping review or categorisation. Guilty pleasure or best new thing? Well, these boys are very very good at what they do and this is a damn fine album. - Matthew Coxon