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This new clip, which features the band being decapitated, has been banned by MTV.

Two Door Cinema Club release the next single from their second album ‘Beacon’ on February 18th

Two Door Cinema Club have debuted the video for the latest single to be taken from their 2012 album ‘Beacon‘. The promo for ‘Sun‘ can be perused via YouTube below.

Indie by numbers is perhaps a harsh label to place on any young up and coming band, but it is difficult to argue against it as an era defining term for the modern musical age.

Cast your mind back to 2005 and the inundation of skinny jean bedecked strummers churning out nice little radio friendly ditties and enjoying meteoric success, only to vanish from the public eye faster than a Big Mac at a Weightwatchers meeting.

See the Guillemots, The Pigeon Detectives, Boy Kill Boy, The Bravery, The Hoosiers,  the….. well you get the idea. Just a handful of players from a cast of thousands who have beautifully illustrated that while fly by night success is by no means without its perks and instant gratification, originality of some description is the key to longevity.

So after the widespread teenage adulation and abundance of “this year’s festival must see” clichés that followed the release of 2010’s debut ‘Tourist History’, the pressure is firmly on Two Door Cinema Club to produce a follow up that would appease the oh so fickle indie scene. An unenviable task by anyone’s standards.

The Vaccines are on course for their first UK number one album according to the midweek chart.

Two Door Cinema Club will play three acoustic gigs in London, Birmingham and Manchester next week to mark the release of their second studio album ‘Beacon‘.

Two Door Cinema Club are streaming their new album ‘Beacon‘ in its entirety on Soundcloud, which can be heard below.

New single released 03/09/12

Two Door Cinema Club will make their new single ‘Sleep Alone‘ available to fans as a free download for 24 hours after it receives its premiere on UK radio this evening.

Two Door Cinema Club will release their new album ‘Beacon‘ in September.