Label: 679
Release Date: 02/06/08
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Summer smash single? The new Las Ketchup? The new Macarena? All those oh so hip tastemakers are saying so anyways. Maybe it's the Eel Pie islanders' summer? Maybe more bands should fire their father?
Not that there was owt wrong with the old Mystery Jets, but 'Two Doors
Down' displays such a fine pedigree of pop, it is akin to comparing a Pomeranian to a (more scruffy, but still beautiful) mutt. It's certainly got that distinctly Mediterranean strum that you heard (well not me, I was but an unintroduced sperm and egg) so much in the mid-80s. The synths on the chorus are strangely reminiscent of Supermarket Sweep. It's cute, but a little off putting, like Dale Winton leering his tangerine face into your shower as you sing your brittle indie heart out to the catchy chorus.
'Two Doors Down' has that old favourite topic of songwriters everywhere - unrequited love. The perfect heart swoon of ooos, mentions of Television's 70s classic Marquee Moon, sunbeams captured in digital bits; if this isn't a massive smash hit type thing then I'll eat my floppy indie fringe, with a sprinkling of beard.
James Lawrenson
Mystery Jets Official Site
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