Gameshow is an album that feels built to be dissected and divvied up into playlists every song is a $3 mixed drink with different liquor and it really doesn’t matter in what order you consume them because you’ll end up crashing regardless.
Funnily enough, the track’s video cuts the complete other direction it looks like one of those late night sketches running on Adult Swim where it takes half of the run time to realize that it’s fake.įrom there, the band descends into a glitzy, synthy madness that feels endearingly, joyously dispensable. Lead single “Are We Ready? (Wreck)” is the album’s most brazen attempt at contemporary indie cool, but its percussive thrust and Alex Trimble’s dramatic vocals make it a sleek slice of Alt Nation-suitable pop. Gameshow is a breezy 10 track collection that would’ve been ideal as a last gasp of summer late August release, but the synth and lead guitar melodies are so sugary that it works as counterprogramming to the rest of the fall schedule. Still, while Two Door Cinema Club aren’t saying anything particularly profound or putting a truly novel spin on this brand of synth pop, they are having a blast throwing some New Order into their sound. In recent years, everyone from Carly Rae Jepsen to Okkervil River to Blood Orange has repurposed the tropes of America’s most endearingly cheesy musical genre into a captivating new concoction. Going gleefully ‘80s camp is a logical move for the boys of Two Door Cinema Club, but that decade’s gooey synths and high-stakes melodies have become such a fixture of the current pop landscape that it’s a logical move for pretty much any artist seeking to shake things up.
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