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 (Kitsuné/etcetc)
Parisian label delivers a Northern Irish band who make British indie
Despite having a reputation for ‘blog house,’ and being instrumental to the success of dance acts including Hot Chip, Klaxons, and, erm, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Parisian label Kitsuné have always had a strong affinity for distinctly British indie rockers. Of course, the artists it has signed have tended towards the dancefloor end of the subgenre. Here, then, is Two Door Cinema club’s début album, Tourist History, and like all of Kitsuné’s releases, it comes with a fair share of hype: the band has been name-checked by Kanye West’s blog (not that it takes much these days), and the group was selected by Phoenix to remix their track Lasso. It’s not hard to see why: they’re young, they’re assured, and they have enough pop nous to make even songs like Come Back Home, with its dated, mid-noughties VHS Or Beta-esque sound, feel fresh. The more frantic Cigarettes In The Theatre is perfectly crafted for the indie disco floor; the breezy Something Good Can Work is a summer-jam-in-waiting – if you’ll recall it in nine months. And therein lies my biggest reservation about recommending this smart, well-produced indie-pop album: there’s very little that distinguishes Two Door Cinema Club from Bloc Party’s other epigones, and from that perspective the Phoenix comparisons are a double-edged sword. Tourist History is neither a bad album, nor a derivative one – it does, however, lack the divine spark that separates the great from the merely good.
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CHAD PARKHILL
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