Two Door Cinema Club
Tourist History
If ever an album was aching for a bland endorsement from the
Jo Whiley Edith Fearne Cotton brigade, it’s
Tourist History. The lolloping rhythms, anthemic choruses, frenetic beats and spiky guitars are a
Radio 1 listener’s wet dream. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The debut from the Northern Irish trio
Two Door Cinema Club – the surprise package of the BBC Sound Of 2010 longlist – is crammed with three-minute pop nuggets. And at 32 minutes it zips by enjoyably enough. However, there’s a nagging all-too-familiar feeling, with more than a nod to
Foals,
Bloc Party,
Franz Ferdinand,
Editors,
Vampire Weekend and
The Futureheads – and even a dash of emo. In the end it may only be a pastiche, but at least it’s a pretty decent one.
3/5
* Originally published in March 2010 issue of The Fly, out now.
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