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. For the band, choosing to go abstract may have been one of their best decisions yet.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. Its retro animation style matches the upbeat tempo and vibrant, vintage synths that make the song especially unique. The video not only works for the song thematically, but also aesthetically. Watch Two Door Cinema Club’s Tastemakers Performance The New Zealand duo, comprised of Sean Wallace and Jordan Dodson, drew initial inspiration from Dante’s “Inferno” and adapted it to a video game as a “fun way to make this concept relevant and also give us a platform for the animators to develop and embellish with the band battling each other to escape hell and earn redemption.” “So we knew we needed to come up with a suitably epic metaphor to illustrate this brilliant song.” “When we first spoke to Alex, on the set of ‘Are We Ready’, it was clear that he hated social media as much as we did,” the directing partners say.

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