The songs, already diluted by the uninspired ’80s vibes and the absence of Two Door’s signature sticky riffs, lose even more personality. His singing loses some of its coherence, especially when he stays in his upper register. After the peppy opener “Are We Ready? (Wreck)” - a track cut from earlier Two Door cloth - comes the meandering, falsetto-heavy single “Bad Decisions”, whose tedium is only interrupted by a spiky, distorted guitar line and a chant vaguely against social media through the phrase “generation information.” The chant isn’t an admonishment, but it also isn’t ironic enough to convincingly parody contemporary digital anxiety.Īs on “Bad Decisions” and throughout Gameshow, Trimble retreats to allow layers of tinny synths and squealing guitars more prominence, his vocals staying lower in the mix than is typical for Two Door Cinema Club. Where standouts off Tourist History and Beacon like “Undercover Martyn” and “Someday” went at a rapid clip to get crowds jumping, Gameshow settles for a swaying two-step. You can’t blame a band for curiously venturing into new genres, but in so doing Two Door Cinema Club lose the emphatic urgency that electrified their hits and made them an act to watch in the first place. So, this move makes some sense for the Irish lads, even though it’s a road already trod by others to far more interesting results. Two Door Cinema Club have been leaning towards these particular genres for a while now their twitchy but undeniably danceable electropop/rock has long been soul- and disco-adjacent. The success of Beacon in 2012 left longtime friends and bandmates Alex Trimble, Sam Halliday, and Kevin Baird at a personal and creative crossroads, and when they reconvened in 2015 to create Gameshow, they set off on a decidedly different track: ’80s nostalgia.Ĭontemporary listeners are no strangers to the retro revival of neo-soul, disco, and funk, a movement Daft Punk pulled off perfectly on Random Access Memories. Gameshow is Two Door Cinema Club’s difficult third album, the kind of left turn a band must take because they just can’t afford to stagnate after releasing two good but largely similar records.
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