Two Door Cinema Club - False Alarm
Critic Score
Based on 12 reviews
2019 Ratings: #475 / 805
User Score
Based on 279 ratings
2019 Rank: #791
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
DIY

Two Door Cinema Club have learnt how to harness their mainstream power while taking creative risks. They pay off almost every time.

90
Clash
Through wide-eyed vulnerability and reflective song writing, ‘False Alarm’ is a game-changing record for the future of indie-rock.
90
Gigwise

It’s distinctly Two Door Cinema Club but it’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard from them before. It’s clever. It’s big-league. It’s ballsy. And most of all it’s fun.

80
AllMusic

False Alarm is a colorful, good-time album by a band that's maturing, and having fun at the same time.

80
The Line of Best Fit

If the job was to create a new, adventurous sound to complete a transformation in the making since Gameshow, these guys have definitely done the job. This is an album of bold, aggressive regeneration that does not fall short.

80
The Independent

On False Alarm ... they offer something that proves they’re still worth paying attention to.

80
Dork
If ‘Gameshow’ was the comeback, ‘False Alarm’ is the knockout crowning of a new champion. An album packed with more ideas across its ten tracks than many bands manage in an entire career, it’s the sound of Two Door Cinema Club at a whole new level of freedom. In turn, it’s the party of the year - and everyone’s invited.
80
Q Magazine
Quietly, and confidently, Two Door Cinema Club march on.
60
NME

Wild experimentation and prioritisation of fun yields mixed results across the band's fourth album, but the risks are admirable in themselves.

60
The Irish Times
Big melodies, catchy choruses and tonal idiosyncracies from the Northern Irish trio.
49
GIGsoup
With ten songs, Two Door Cinema Club still fail at maintaining a level of excitement throughout. ‘False Alarm’ is a disappointing, if very forgettable, entry into a band’s discography – a band that have got by being the party band.
40
The Guardian

It isn’t a bad album – the songs are largely alright, the production neat – but there’s nothing on it that you haven’t heard already. Moreover, Two Door Cinema Club don’t have enough personality to impose any kind of distinctive character on the material: nothing is given a unique spin or a different slant.

miiarcus
50

Two Door Cinema Club continue their decent by stepping into a room full of synthesizers and switches up their sound by emphasizing their electronic sound even further. They may be taking a few steps forward, but for the most part they're going backwards. For it being synthy and electronic, you'd expect it to be catchy, right? None of these songs stuck with me. They enter my left ear and fly straight out of my right ear.

It's already forgettable after the first few tracks, and it gets even ... read more

zachthesnack
51

Nothing truly special, but definitely well made. A few indie pop bangers for summer. The songs were just not consistently engaging and the lyrical content was a bit bland.

Plats
70

As someone who has only listened to "Tourist History", I have no idea what styles occurred in between and what led up to this. I really like this style, though, because "False Alarm" still retains the infectiousness and all-around irresistibly dancey bass and drum grooves of that album. The production is great, the writing is solid and the instrumentation is solid. It has a few shortcomings, like that shitty Open Mike Eagle verse on "Nice To See You" (seriously, ... read more

miiarcus
50

Two Door Cinema Club continue their decent by stepping into a room full of synthesizers and switches up their sound by emphasizing their electronic sound even further. They may be taking a few steps forward, but for the most part they're going backwards. For it being synthy and electronic, you'd expect it to be catchy, right? None of these songs stuck with me. They enter my left ear and fly straight out of my right ear.

It's already forgettable after the first few tracks, and it gets even ... read more

Cartoon
70

Escuché múltiples veces y es increíble como no recuerdo casi ninguna canción del álbum XD.

Luke_G
80

Very good, but not quite as good as the band’s previous albums.

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Track List

1Once
3:18
79
2Talk
4:24
77
3Satisfaction Guaranteed
3:47
feat. Mokoomba
76
4So Many People
4:41
81
5Think
3:51
66
6Nice to See You
6:13
72
7Break
2:08
65
8Dirty Air
4:03
82
9Satellite
4:19
82
10Already Gone
3:41
66
11Talk (Single Edit)
3:36
80
12Satellite (Single Edit)
3:21
80
Total Length: 47 minutes

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Added on: April 24, 2019