I can tell that this is one of those albums that has some catchiness up front, and grows from there. It’s definitely sticky, in a good way. Lotsa catchy hooks, yummy choruses, slayed bass guitars, and even the little jingly bells in the background of “This is the life”… gotta love it. Is that a standard ‘80s Casio keyboard drum sample at the beginning of “Something Good Can Work”? It totally works – of course it fades into a full sounding drum groove, though considering the lineup of the band lists Alex Trimble as responsible for “beats” I may not be too far off the Casio keyboard prognosis… (Potentially dicey use of “prognosis” there, but I’m stickin’ with it. Wikipedia’s example of the word is “45% of patients with severe septic shock will die within 28 days.” Fuck that. How about 93% of listeners to Two Door Cinema Club will imagine getting their groove on with their love interest. Oh yeah…) (I digress) It’s a relatively new band, and I think as their first studio album they are kicking ass and taking names. Word on the streets is that the album was #22 in Ireland. Being from Northern Ireland (them, not me. I’m a euro-immigrant mutt born in the farmlands in the north) I would think the radio would have eaten this up. Maybe too pop inspired? Eh… whatever the reason, it’s definitely a head bobber. I keep spacing out my attempt at a rating system where the metric is the number of songs that would work in videos staring the Beastie Boys in their “Sabotage” guises. Maybe because it sucks. If such a metric were adopted, this album would probably bomb. Time to figure out a new metric then. I’ll get right on that. |
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