Two Door Cinema Club: Beacon

My favorite band that I blogged about a few weeks back recently released their newest album. Beacon by Two Door Cinema Club has 11 tracks on it, all of which I really like. It has some serious differences to their first album Tourist History, but I think that they're good differences. The style has moved further away from their previous 'dance' and up-beat rock, and more into an alternative rock genre.

This song called Handshake has become one of my favorites on the album. It is a good example of a sort of middle ground between their previous album's style and their new one. 

Wake Up is probably my favorite song on Beacon. It is high-energy, very well written, and the vocals are great as usual. This particular song seems to me that it could appeal to people who like many different genres and classifications of rock or pop. It's kind of a mix of rock, pop, and alternative.

When I hear this song called Sleep Alone, it was a couple of months before Beacon was released. I knew that I liked it for sure. It wasn't until the third or fourth time that I listened to it when I realized how much I actually liked it. It grew on me. My friend who loves this band had the same reaction as me. The song definitely has a pretty deep meaning that I'm still trying to put my finger on. I think it really is a great song. Like I said in my last blog about TDCC, they sound very original in my opinion. Alex Trimble's higher-range voice is a big part of this. He is a skilled singer and his range really compliments the rest of the music. The short, solo-like guitar parts that they use frequently in their songs also influence their sound. I'm not sure if they're the first ones to combine aspects like these, but the end result is very satisfying to me and I really love listening to every song of theirs.