Two Door Cinema Club share new single ‘Dirty Air’, new album ‘False Alarm’ out June 21

Two Door Cinema Club have today released ‘Dirty Air’, the third single taken from their fourth studio album False Alarm, now arriving on June 21 via Prolifica Inc / [PIAS]. The track was unveiled as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1 last night, with the band due to play Radio 1’s Future Sounds with Annie Mac.

The smog-clogged disco rock of ‘Dirty Air’ sees Alex lustily prowling a ruined city’s dancefloors, posing through the ecological collapse: “The sky is falling, so pull up a chair”. “I thought what if we celebrated the end of the world and just had a big party?” he grins.

Speaking about the album, singer Alex Trimble explains: “I love the pop thing. I love experimenting and going to different places, I love doing things that are a little bit wonky and I love the idea of doing something we haven’t done before, why can’t we do all of those things at once? That’s what it was, doing whatever felt right… It sounds like Two Door Cinema Club – not a Two Door Cinema Club there’d ever been before but that’s what I love. We can always do something new but it always feels like something we’ve done.”

The band’s first album to be released in full collaboration with Prolifica Inc, False Alarm finds the three piece gloriously unshackled and creatively at the peak of their game. Across its ten tracks False Alarm wryly scans and satirises the social and environmental woes of 2019 through the prism of wonderfully off-kilter pop, simultaneously borrowing from and warping elements of future pop, disco, rock, funk and soul. Recorded in sessions between London and LA with producer Jacknife Lee (U2, REM, The Killers), it’s an LP that takes the familiar and twists it, to startling and stimulating effect. It all makes for a wide-eyed, culture-encompassing leap forward for the band, a record liable to break, ruin and remould pop in 2019.

Two Door Cinema Club
False Alarm

1. Once
2. Talk
3. Satisfaction Guaranteed
4. So Many people
5. Think
6. Nice To See You
7. Break
8. Dirty Air
9. Satellite
10. Already Gone