February 2010 [When I started writing this, then it got neglected]
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History (I always seem to want to call them Three Door, you can to if you like.)
Irish love spawn of Bloc Party and The Futureheads
At this time of year, hype generators like the BBC’s Sounds of 2010 poll can give bands a lot to live up to, and the ‘tastemakers’ didn’t leave ‘Two Door Cinema Club’ behind. This exciting Northern Ireland export are defiantly set to get some teenage knickers in a twist with their debut release Tourist History, which has eventually broken through to the masses after years of touring the array of small venues around the UK. But in fact this short and bitter-sweet marvel deserves the same level of admiration given to other distinctive bundles of inventive indie/electro such as Foals and Delphic which the band have opened for, during the time when most of their fans only new them as a myspace page or blog entry.
The opening track ‘Cigarettes in the Theatre’ pushes the comic-book-reading student art-rock buttons and definitely shines some light on the Bloc Party comparisons. ‘This is the Life’ is a more indulgent melodic entry and ‘I Can Talk’ shows some cracking Futureheads inspired riffs and quirky vocals, putting them up there with some of the indie-pop names around this year. ‘Something Good Can Work’ is for me, the icing on the neatly iced sponge cake with heartening lyrical progressions and The dazzling catchyness of ‘What you Know’ show Two Door to be the love spawn of many British bands before but still bringing something new and superb to the electo indie-pop table that you can’t quite put your finger on. The album ends on the ironically high spirited tune, ‘You are not Stubborn’ about arguing to the point that you can’t remember why on earth you fell out in the first place.
This summer will no doubt be a massive summer for Two Door Cinema Club, prepare to be singing their tracks around the fields of Glastonbury.
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