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  2010-08-06 12:49AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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  http://www.timeout.com.hk/music/features/35751/two-door-cinema-club.html

  Two Door Cinema Club

  Posted: 4 Aug 2010
  

  Kevin Baird sounds older than you’d expect. On the phone, as the bassist and the rest of his Northern Irish band hang out in Geneva airport, he’s calm, media-comfortable and affable, showing all the hall marks of someone well beyond his years. Someone that’s about 24. “Three of us are all 20. But Sam [Halliday] and I will both be 21 in a week,” he says excitedly.

  Since the release of their debut EP in early 2009, so much has been made about these art-pop wunderkinds’ age that it’s become a bit of a sticking point for the trio from Bangor.

  “We hate the way [age] becomes a factor in our music, when people say, ‘they’re very young. It’s great that they’re doing this at their age’”, he says. “We’d rather not be complemented for doing what we do so young. We’d rather be complimented on what our music sounds like.”
  
  But in many respects, their age and their sound are inextricably associated. Their debut Tourist History, released on French electro label-of-the-moment Kitsune last year to plaudits, is brimming with a youthful spirit, melodic lines as bouncy as their energetic programmed drum beats (which in turn are as bouncy as caffeinated adolescents on a trampoline), a sonic aesthetic that’s a mix of Foals, Bloc Party and Phoenix, and most of all, head-boppers like Something Good Can Work, I Can Talk and Undercover Martyn that linger well beyond their three-minute run time. From this description, you might be thinking, “That sounds catchy”. Indeed, there are few bands that are producing such unshakable melodies as TDCC. But do they ever find themselves skirting the ‘too catchy’ threshold?

  “Melody’s a very important thing, and we think that’s what makes a great song. I don’t think there’s such a thing as too catchy, unless it got ridiculous. An awfully awful catchy,” he says. “Some of our early stuff, we got a bit carried away with ridiculous pop songs that we decided to go away from. If another band played these songs, we would hate them.”

  TDCC’s brand of pop has earned them one foot in the door to the cinema club of the big time, making the long list for BBC’s Sound of 2010, hailed in the blogosphere and remixed by the illustrious likes of Passion Pit.

  And rather bizarrely, in trying to cement that position, they’re taking an expected route. “We were writing some new songs the other day, which are quite different from what we’ve done before. Still very Two Door Cinema Club, but one was quite a summer ballad – it’s quite a strange concept.”

  TDCC fans shouldn’t worry too much yet – their follow-up album won’t happen until well into 2011. This summer at HITEC, it’ll just be that irresistibly catchy pop. 

  Mark Tjhung

  Two Door Cinema Club play HITEC on August 10. Tickets: www.hkticketing.com; 3128 8288. Hear their first single Something Good Can Work on the Time Out Podcast.