Two Door Cinema Club

Two Door Cinema Club are a Northern Irish group with a voracious alt-pop appetite, channeling emo, power pop, twinkling electronica and yearning adult contemporary into a tight, punchy package. The trio of schoolmates released its first singles with Paris' Kitsune label in 2009, and in 2010 they stayed with the label for their debut album, Tourist History, which they recorded in Paris with Cassius' Philippe Zdar. Like Phoenix, another group to record in Zdar's Motorbass studio, Two Door Cinema Club specialize in kinetic bass-and-drum grooves, spiky guitar lines and sing-along choruses; what sets the group apart is its nervous emo overdrive, a gleaming sweetness always on the verge of an ice-cream headache.