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PANIC! AT THE CINEMA

The old adage swears that it’s the third time that is, in fact, a charm. But for Irish indie-pop powerhouse Two Door Cinema Club, it’s with LP4 – the vibrant and punchy False Alarm – that they’ve truly cracked the code. Meddling sharp and sprightly guitar parts with jangly, polychromatic synths and titanic vocal hooks, the trio have crafted what may be – as paradoxical as the concept seems at face value – the definitive Two Door Cinema Club album.

Across a neat ten slithers of spellbinding buoyancy, False Alarm clusters and concentrates everything we’ve come to know and love from the trio, then pumps in some well-accentuated new flavours, a couple of mammoth collaborations, and

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