Tourist History
by Two Door Cinema Club
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 113 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 101 out of 113
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 113
  3. Negative: 4 out of 113

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  1. 2hip2beahipster
    Jul 1, 2011
    6
    Good, sing songy album. Lead singer reminds me of Ben Gibbard and his work with the Postal Service. This is a simple, straight forward, catchy pop album. This album has a whole lotta catchy hooks, catchy riffs. Good dance pop, nothing ground breaking, but then again, does every album have to be ground breaking. This band has a formula that consists of lyrics about love, heart break, andGood, sing songy album. Lead singer reminds me of Ben Gibbard and his work with the Postal Service. This is a simple, straight forward, catchy pop album. This album has a whole lotta catchy hooks, catchy riffs. Good dance pop, nothing ground breaking, but then again, does every album have to be ground breaking. This band has a formula that consists of lyrics about love, heart break, and girls, catchy/ dancy guitar riffs, punchy/funky drums beats,effective melodies and straight forward instrumentation. Good album to sing along to. A solid effort from a young group of Irish lads.… Expand
  2. jjenglishroots
    May 13, 2011
    6
    This album is catchy, but all the drum beats are basically the same. For a first album it works, but I'll be interested to see if the next expands the sound.

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. BBC Music
    60
    Two Door Cinema Club show sporadic flashes of greatness and have an overall standard of songwriting which places them among the better new bands in the UK.
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  2. Dot Music
    60
    There are some fiendishly catchy hooks and very occasionally a real quality to some of the songwriting, enough to suggest that there are better things to come from the young trio once simply aping the already done-to-death genre du jour has finally lost its appeal.
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  3. Drowned In Sound
    70
    With barely a duff song here bar the minor irritations mentioned earlier, Tourist History is an infectious debut that may well divide opinion, but at least suggests that amidst all the uneasy listening and obtuse noises coming out of the underground at present there are still those capable of writing the odd tune or ten.
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