Across this decade-long tenure, they’ve followed their still-adored debut with a decent second album in 2012’s ‘Beacon’, a well-publicised fracturing that led to the band almost breaking up, and a return four years later with 2016’s passable but underwhelming ‘Gameshow’.

With first album hits ‘What You Know’, ‘Undercover Martyn’ et al still staples at indie discos, the band’s tour for ‘False Alarm’ includes a date at London’s O2 Arena, and few would consider that a stretch. Highly stylised for the first time, the kitschy, filmic cover (a thematic trend that runs throughout the visuals for the album and its singles) comes in stark contrast to a band who have previously been largely anonymous as people while their music has seen them quietly rise into the upper echelons of the UK indie game. The lofty revealing of the artwork for ‘False Alarm’, the fourth album from Two Door Cinema Club, also ushered in a marked visual change for the Northern Irish trio. As statements for the announcement of a new album go, launching the record into literal space must rank pretty highly.

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