That video is from newcomers Two Door Cinema Club who are so far looking to be this year’s obligatory Brit Rock One Hit Wonder of The Year. All of the elements are there: Jangly/awesome guitar hook, pretty great bass line complete with the brooding one of the band who is slightly more attractive than the two other non-threatening band members, the semi-surprising but in hindsight totally predictable addition of some electronic elements. All of that smashed together with a chorus so big that it’s threatening to span the length of the Atlantic Ocean and invade our American ears! Every time I listen to this song, which according to my iTunes now stands at 6 listens, I’m reminded of another song cut from the same cloth which I was similarly obsessed with a couple of years ago. Here’s the video for Tape It by Winterkids:
Now of course there are differences. The “surprise” element is the use of the glockenspiel and I must say I like this bands wardrobe better but yeah the bass line is there, the same use of the off beat in the drumming, the usual breakdown before returning triumphantly to the massive chorus. Hell they both even sing about what a certain “she” spoke about! Part of me wants to be up in arms by this music by numbers but come on we all need a helping of sugary sweetness to cleanse our palettes of the typical overload of dense, gourmet, multi-course music…well unless all you listen to is chock full of this sort of sweetener in which case you might have some sort of type 2 musical diabetes…
Yes that is my second post of the day, and yes its just as pointless as the last one.
Boom!
-Wine
