Two Door Cinema Club have learnt how to harness their mainstream power while taking creative risks. They pay off almost every time.
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.
False Alarm is a colorful, good-time album by a band that's maturing, and having fun at the same time.
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.
On False Alarm ... they offer something that proves they’re still worth paying attention to.
Wild experimentation and prioritisation of fun yields mixed results across the band's fourth album, but the risks are admirable in themselves.
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.
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
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.
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
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
Escuché múltiples veces y es increíble como no recuerdo casi ninguna canción del álbum XD.
1 | Once 3:18 | 79 |
2 | Talk 4:24 | 77 |
3 | Satisfaction Guaranteed 3:47 feat. Mokoomba | 76 |
4 | So Many People 4:41 | 81 |
5 | Think 3:51 | 66 |
6 | Nice to See You 6:13 feat. Open Mike Eagle | 72 |
7 | Break 2:08 | 65 |
8 | Dirty Air 4:03 | 82 |
9 | Satellite 4:19 | 82 |
10 | Already Gone 3:41 | 66 |
11 | Talk (Single Edit) 3:36 | 80 |
12 | Satellite (Single Edit) 3:21 | 80 |