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Live Review: WATCH: Two Door Cinema Club 'Sleep Alone'

9 August 2012 | 4:36 pm | Tom Hutchins

The first taste of the second album from Two Door Cinema Club, 'Sleep Alone' is pretty enjoyable and it's accompanying clip is just as good.

There a couple of things you should already know about TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB's most recent developments:

  • Their much anticipated follow up LP to 2010's Tourist History is due out early September. And it is called Beacon.
  • They have this week been announced on the third Artist announcement for the already amazing Falls Music & Arts Festival. (Lorne - be ready for these guys on New Years Eve)
  • The first slice of Beacon that the world has been treated to is, 'Sleep Alone'.
  • We now have it's accompanying video clip for your enjoyment.

Okay, now that the formalities are over we can move onto the important stuff. 'Sleep Alone' seems to be a step in the right direction for the Northern Ireland boys, as it manages to encapsulate everything you fell in love with the band a couple of years ago, whilst demonstrating some real progression in their sound.

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TDCC have always been known for blissful melodies mixing with sharp guitars and this song is no different - it's a perfect demonstration of why they are one of the most popular Indie-Pop acts of the last decade. And whilst their debut album at times border-lined on over produced pop, the first taste of their new material seems to have more raw qualities, whilst maintaining an overall clean production value. Basically, it's make us extremely excited for the rest of the album.

Talking to NME earlier this week, lead vocalist Alex Trimble was stating as saying that the track was inspired by his troubled, drug-induced dreams after returning home from the band's ridiculously busy touring schedule - and this is very clear in the clip itself. Directed by Parisian wonder producers AB/CD/DC, the clip follows the band after passing out in a hotel room from what one can only assume as a massive night of being Two Door. They are then flung into a number of different nightmares, before again waking back up in that hotel room. Classic dream sequence clip.

It features flying guitars, melting TV's, ghosts and those beautiful Irish lads. So yeah, it's pretty great.

Beacon is out September 3 via Kitsune/Co-Op.

Words by Tom Hutchins