Two Door Cinema Club’s sophomore release won’t be a disappointment following Tourist History. Upbeat and calculated, Beacon is a perky collection of short pop songs that explore the tension between optimism and anxiety. In a recent NME interview, frontman Alex Trimble summed the album up pretty accurately; it’s “deeper and definitely more emotional” than Tourist History, but it still maintains their debut’s positivity. Sure enough, each song cuts just a bit deeper than its Tourist History counterpart without sacrificing any of the band’s uplifting urgency. It picks up right where Tourist History left off.
