This spine-tingling genius collection of 3-minute pop masterpieces should help make anyone's year.
Here's the crack:
The album is undeniably pop, but draws on disparate elements including electronica/electro, rock and Afro-beats whilst remaining resolutely fresh and inventive. Pigeon-holing this band will be impossible. Formed at the age of 15, the band now say "We were playing music that we weren't enjoying, so we said ‘let's write some songs, without any pretence of what they'll sound like'. That's why we find it so hard now if people now ask us what genre we are."
The only constant between songs is the length of them - short! - redefining short, sharp and sweet. The songs average out at a pop-perfect 3 mins. Says Kev, "We've never seen the point of adding something on to make the song longer. Or to cram in lots of songs. We just wanted a really impressive first album, where every song could be someone's favourite."
Two Door Cinema Club will be touring their new album extensively through 2010, starting with a sold out UK tour and have just added 2 NME Awards Shows with The Maccabees plus a support tour with Phoenix.
Having already accumulated nearly a million listens online and being signed to one of the coolest indie labels around , the tour and debut album are sure to propel Two Door Cinema Club firmly into your consciousness. Watch them go....
Tracklisting as follows -
"Tourist History"
1. Cigarettes In The Theatre
2. Come Back Home
3. Do You Want It All?
4. This Is The Life
5. Something Good Can Work
6. I Can Talk
7. Undercover Martyn
8. What You Know
9. Eat That Up, It's Good For You
10. You're Not Stubborn
TOUR DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS :
Sun 21-Feb-10 Dublin, NME Awards Show @ The Academy
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Mon 22-Feb-10 Belfast, NME Awards Show @ Mandela Hall
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Tues 09-Mar-10 Bristol, Thekla
08713 100 000 www.alt-tickets.co.uk
Wed 10-Mar-10 Leeds, Cockpit
0113 2454650 www.lunatickets.co.uk
Thur 11-Mar-10 Sheffield, Academy
0844 477 2000 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Frid 12-Mar-10 York, Fibbers
08444 77 1000 www.ticketweb.co.uk / www.seetickets.com
Sun 14-Mar-10 Glasgow, King Tuts
08444 999 990 www.gigsinscotland.com
Mon 15-Mar-10 Newcastle, The Other Rooms
08444 771 000 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Wed 17-Mar-10 Birmingham, Academy 2
0844 477 2000 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Thur 18-Mar-10 London, Hoxton Bar & Grill
0871 2200 260 www.gigsandtours.com
Fri 19-Mar-10 Oxford, Academy
0844 477 2000 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Sat 20-Mar-10 Manchester, Deaf Institute
0871 2200 260 www.gigsandtours.com
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