Where The 1975 ‘legitimise’ (eurgh) their hooks with shoegazey passages and drum ‘n’ bass worship, Two Door just chuck another twenty synths and a packet of glitter all over everything in sight. ‘Gameshow’ is a warts ‘n’ all embracing of capital-P pop the kind which Two Door Cinema Club seemed desperate to keep at arms’ length before. Things have, obviously, moved on – while Two Door were in the ether, The 1975 became the unstoppable behemoth of 80s-indebted guitar music they are today Foals leapfrogged Alex Trimble and co.
Borne of depression, alcoholism, near implosion and hospitalisation – it’s hardly your typical popstar’s diary entry, but it’s from that rocky standing that Two Door Cinema Club stake their claim to return as indie-pop royalty.
Few chart bothering records this year will emerge from a bleakness that could rival ‘Gameshow’’s.
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