Two Door Cinema Club completed their album via email because two of the band members moved to AmericaGameshow by Co Down’s Two Door Cinema Club, which comes after the creeper 2012 hit Beacon, sounds oddly familiar. That’s because there has been a lot of this kind of 1980s-influenced synthesizer pop in the charts recently, and therein lies the problem. The album does have moments of character: Bad Decisions must be the first falsetto-led disco floor-filler about the evils of social media, and the lead singer Alex Trimble’s words on the emptiness of fame work well against the hysterical funk of Gameshow. Yet the wuh-ohs on Lavender are like so many other wuh-ohs and the stop-start tempo of…

Source: The Times October 20, 2016 23:03 UTC