Roger Deckker
Four years on from ‘Beacon‘, Two Door Cinema Club will put a disruptive spell to an end with their new album ‘Gameshow’.
Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jacknife Lee, the album is set for release on October 14th. It comes after the band abruptly pulled out of the 2014 Latitude Festival and went quiet for a while as frontman Alex Trimble battled a stomach illness.
“We’re not embracing the pop that’s going on now in a melodic or structural sense,” Trimble says of this their third album. “The two biggest influences for me were Prince and Bowie – both total pioneers who straddled that lines between out-there pop and avant garde craziness.”
‘Are We Ready (Wreck)?’ got its first play on BBC Radio 1 yesterday evening, Trimble has things to say about this track too:
“While I was writing this single I discovered this term weltschmertz, the German word for being at odds with the world around you. The fact that it was a fully coined term and related to so many people that have existed and do exist made me feel it was okay to not exist on the same level as everyone else.”
