| Tourist History | ||
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| Studio album by Two Door Cinema Club | ||
| Released | 26 February 2010 | |
| Recorded | June–July 2009 Eastcote Studios, London Motorbass, Paris |
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| Genre | Indie rock, indie pop, electropop, dance-punk, power pop | |
| Length | 32:32 | |
| Label | Kitsuné Music Glassnote Records RED Distribution |
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| Producer | Eliot James | |
| Singles from Tourist History | ||
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Tourist History is the debut studio album by Northern Ireland band Two Door Cinema Club. It was released on 26 February 2010 in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Kitsuné Music, and 27 April in the United States on Glassnote Records. The band announced the details of their album on 1 January 2010 in an interview with NME.[1] The idea for the album title "Tourist History" came from the popularity of their hometown Bangor with tourists, and of their own travels as Two Door Cinema Club.[2]
Tourist History won the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year 2010.[3][4] The band said it was the first award they had ever won.[5][6] They donated the €10,000 prize money to charity.[7]
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The band recorded the album at Eastcote Studios in London with Elliot James during July 2009. The band were recording in the studio adjacent from Duran Duran. The album was mixed at Phillipe Zdar's recently built studio, Motorbass. Two Door Cinema Club are the second band to use the recently constructed studio, the first being Phoenix, who were recording their Grammy Award-winning album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. During the mixing process, Zdar reportedly found it hard to understand the band's Northern Irish accents over the first couple of days. Of working with Two Door Cinema Club, Zdar said to NME, "Their stuff was already tight - I was just able to give big bass, big highs, and something a bit large! They are completely crazy about music - there is not one hour when they don't listen or download something from a blog. They remind me of when I was a teenager." The album was mastered by Mike Marsh at the Exchange in London.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Cigarettes in the Theatre" | 3:34 |
| 2. | "Come Back Home" | 3:24 |
| 3. | "Undercover Martyn" | 2:48 |
| 4. | "Do You Want It All" | 3:30 |
| 5. | "This Is the Life" | 3:31 |
| 6. | "Something Good Can Work" | 2:45 |
| 7. | "I Can Talk" | 2:58 |
| 8. | "What You Know" | 3:12 |
| 9. | "Eat That Up, It's Good for You" | 3:45 |
| 10. | "You're Not Stubborn" | 3:11 |
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 11. | "Kids" | 3:04 | |||||||
| 12. | "Costume Party" | 3:27 | |||||||
| Deluxe Edition Disc 2 [8] | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Kids" | 3:04 | |||||||
| 2. | "Undercover Martyn (Whatever/Whatever Remix)" | 8:27 | |||||||
| 3. | "I Can Talk (French Horn Rebellion Remix)" | 4:22 | |||||||
| 4. | "Come Back Home (Is Tropical Chilla Black Edit)" | 4:21 | |||||||
| 5. | "Undercover Martyn (Jupiter Remix)" | 3:43 | |||||||
| 6. | "I Can Talk (Moulinex Remix)" | 5:02 | |||||||
| 7. | "What You Know (Cassian Remix)" | 4:54 | |||||||
| 8. | "Come Back Home (Myd Remix)" | 5:06 | |||||||
| 9. | "Something Good Can Work (Ted & Francis Remix)" | 3:24 | |||||||
| 10. | "Undercover Martyn (Softwar Remix)" | 6:38 | |||||||
| 11. | "Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix)" | 4:09 | |||||||
| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [9] |
| BBC | (positive)[10] |
| Q | [11] |
| Drowned in Sound | [12] |
| NME | [13] |
| RTÉ | [14] |
| State | [15] |
| The Times | [16] |
Lou Thomas of BBC described the album as showing "sporadic flashes of greatness," comparing the album to the works of Editors, Foals, and Futureheads,[17] whilst Laura Silverman of The Times described the album as "an excited burst of short, simple indie pop songs driven by jangly guitars and punk rhythms."[18] Dom Gourlay of Drowned in Sound described the album as mixing Bloc Party's guile and wisdom with a pop sensibility not normally associated with modern-day guitar oriented bands" and as a "more accessible and less po-faced Antidotes."[19] Metacritic, which compiles reviews and aggregates them, gave the album a score of 67/100.
| Charts (2010) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Albums Chart | 44 |
| UK Albums Chart | 46 |
| Irish Albums Chart | 22 |
| French Albums Chart | 51 |
| Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia) | 72 |
| Charts (2011) | Peak position |
| UK Albums Chart | 24 |
| US Billboard Heatseekers Albums | 5 |
| US Billboard Independent Albums | 26 |
| Region | Date | Format |
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| Ireland[20] | 26 February 2010 | Digital download |
| United Kingdom[21] |