BEACON - Two Door Cinema Club

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB – BEACON (album)

Released 31^st August 2012

After releasing the single ‘SLEEP ALONE’ earlier in the summer, I think that there was a lot expected from Two Door Cinema Club’s new album, BEACON.

The album opens with a repeated guitar riff, which builds during the intro, the emptiness of this however, contrasts with the depth of the rest of the album. The opening track, ‘NEXT YEAR’ is one of my favourites for witty, fitting lyrics “maybe someday you’ll be somewhere talking to me, as if you knew me, saying ‘I’ll be home for next year darling’”. After the chorus follows a great guitar interlude, played by the indie-guitar-genius, named Sam Halliday.

‘SLEEP ALONE’ the first single from this album, defines all that is good about this band. An upbeat rhythm, which exists to make heads bob when the tune enters the headphones of a travelling indie fan, or- in my case- a jump in the step of teenager who is running late. The iconic Two Door guitar riffs, played high on the fret board, to remind one of such a sound belonging to the Editors combine yet contrast with the bass lines from Kev Baird. Again, such meaningful lyrics performed by Alex Trimble, with a voice that even reached Olympic Opening Ceremony standard- a fact which all Two Door Cinema Club fans can be proud of.

I would recommend this album a great example of Indie and skilful music. Sounds that work, and add up to all that is key in a good album, and a successful band.

The overall sound of the album is not devastatingly different to the band’s first album, TOURIST HISTORY, but a further sense of experience is found and this band can now find their well deserved place in the list of artists who define British music of today.