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Track List
01) Cigarettes in the Theatre
02) Come Back Home
03) Do You Want It All?
04) This Is the Life
05) Something Good Can Work
06) I Can Talk
07) Undercover Martyn
08) What You Know
09) Eat That Up, It's Good for You
10) You're Not Stubborn
01) Cigarettes in the Theatre
02) Come Back Home
03) Do You Want It All?
04) This Is the Life
05) Something Good Can Work
06) I Can Talk
07) Undercover Martyn
08) What You Know
09) Eat That Up, It's Good for You
10) You're Not Stubborn
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First Released
2010
Indie
Good Natured
Rock/Pop
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Tourist History is the debut studio album by Northern Ireland band Two Door Cinema Club. It was released on 26 February 2010 in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Kitsuné Music, and 27 April in the United States on Glassnote Records. The band announced the details of their album on 1 January 2010 in an interview with NME. The idea for the album title "Tourist History" came from the popularity of their hometown Bangor with tourists, and of their own travels as Two Door Cinema Club.
Tourist History won the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year 2010. The band said it was the first award they had ever won. They donated the €10,000 prize money to charity.
The band recorded the album at Eastcote Studios in London with Elliot James during July 2009. The band were recording in the studio adjacent from Duran Duran. The album was mixed at Phillipe Zdar's recently built studio, Motorbass. Two Door Cinema Club are the second band to use the recently constructed studio, the first being Phoenix, who were recording their Grammy Award-winning album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. During the mixing process, Zdar reportedly found it hard to understand the band's Northern Irish accents over the first couple of days. Of working with Two Door Cinema Club, Zdar said to NME, "Their stuff was already tight - I was just able to give big bass, big highs, and something a bit large! They are completely crazy about music - there is not one hour when they don't listen or download something from a blog. They remind me of when I was a teenager." The album was mastered by Mike Marsh at the Exchange in London.
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Bangor trio Two Door Cinema Club have a penchant for naming their songs with what sound like chapter titles from an awful self-help book.
The Northern Irish boys are apparently less crooked than an avaricious motivational guru yet are happy to pepper their debut with tunes called Do You Want It All, This Is the Life and Something Good Can Work. These monikers tend to suggest a certain authoritative, even dogmatic approach to making music, and there is evidence of discipline in the musical content. Each song on Tourist History is between two-and-a-half and four minutes long, and all have a punchy directness.
Erstwhile Paul Epworth protégé Elliot James can take a degree of responsibility for this with his production work. Kevin Baird’s bass is always prominent, with impressive XTC-influenced work on Cigarettes in the Theatre and a tidy Stranglers-evoking turn on Come Back Home. What You Know, one of the album’s best moments, is another triumph of bass, but also contains vocalist Alex Trimble’s most emotive vocal and guitarist Sam Halliday’s most spindly high-register riffs.
Rather unfortunately, there is a huge Bloc Party-shaped elephant in the speakers, and not much originality here. Although BP and Editors are the most obvious forebears, listeners may also be reminded of Radiohead in the days when they were more interested in rocking than doing maths.
Still, there is comfort to be had from familiarity. And more importantly there are plenty of great tunes here. Eat That Up, It’s Good For You begins with the superb words, “You would look a little better”¦ if you just wore less make up”. Undercover Martyn, meanwhile, includes the delightful phrase, “She spoke words that would melt in your hands”. As for second single I Can Talk, it’s nothing less than stunning; an inspired blend of melody and pugnacious drive that recalls The Futureheads at their absolute best.
Two Door Cinema Club show sporadic flashes of greatness and have an overall standard of songwriting which places them among the better new bands in the UK. They should build on this, and try out some new ideas when making their second album.
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Tourist History is the debut studio album by Northern Ireland band Two Door Cinema Club. It was released on 26 February 2010 in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Kitsuné Music, and 27 April in the United States on Glassnote Records. The band announced the details of their album on 1 January 2010 in an interview with NME. The idea for the album title "Tourist History" came from the popularity of their hometown Bangor with tourists, and of their own travels as Two Door Cinema Club.
Tourist History won the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year 2010. The band said it was the first award they had ever won. They donated the €10,000 prize money to charity.
The band recorded the album at Eastcote Studios in London with Elliot James during July 2009. The band were recording in the studio adjacent from Duran Duran. The album was mixed at Phillipe Zdar's recently built studio, Motorbass. Two Door Cinema Club are the second band to use the recently constructed studio, the first being Phoenix, who were recording their Grammy Award-winning album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. During the mixing process, Zdar reportedly found it hard to understand the band's Northern Irish accents over the first couple of days. Of working with Two Door Cinema Club, Zdar said to NME, "Their stuff was already tight - I was just able to give big bass, big highs, and something a bit large! They are completely crazy about music - there is not one hour when they don't listen or download something from a blog. They remind me of when I was a teenager." The album was mastered by Mike Marsh at the Exchange in London.
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Bangor trio Two Door Cinema Club have a penchant for naming their songs with what sound like chapter titles from an awful self-help book.
The Northern Irish boys are apparently less crooked than an avaricious motivational guru yet are happy to pepper their debut with tunes called Do You Want It All, This Is the Life and Something Good Can Work. These monikers tend to suggest a certain authoritative, even dogmatic approach to making music, and there is evidence of discipline in the musical content. Each song on Tourist History is between two-and-a-half and four minutes long, and all have a punchy directness.
Erstwhile Paul Epworth protégé Elliot James can take a degree of responsibility for this with his production work. Kevin Baird’s bass is always prominent, with impressive XTC-influenced work on Cigarettes in the Theatre and a tidy Stranglers-evoking turn on Come Back Home. What You Know, one of the album’s best moments, is another triumph of bass, but also contains vocalist Alex Trimble’s most emotive vocal and guitarist Sam Halliday’s most spindly high-register riffs.
Rather unfortunately, there is a huge Bloc Party-shaped elephant in the speakers, and not much originality here. Although BP and Editors are the most obvious forebears, listeners may also be reminded of Radiohead in the days when they were more interested in rocking than doing maths.
Still, there is comfort to be had from familiarity. And more importantly there are plenty of great tunes here. Eat That Up, It’s Good For You begins with the superb words, “You would look a little better”¦ if you just wore less make up”. Undercover Martyn, meanwhile, includes the delightful phrase, “She spoke words that would melt in your hands”. As for second single I Can Talk, it’s nothing less than stunning; an inspired blend of melody and pugnacious drive that recalls The Futureheads at their absolute best.
Two Door Cinema Club show sporadic flashes of greatness and have an overall standard of songwriting which places them among the better new bands in the UK. They should build on this, and try out some new ideas when making their second album.
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