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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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