The record that really brought us together was Relationship Of Command and that was the soundtrack to a lot of our first tours as well." One of the bands that we bonded over when we first started hanging out with each other was At The Drive-In. I remember skipping school – actually, it was the three of us in the band, we were maybe 15 or 16 and we'd convinced our parents to write fake sick notes for the school, and we took a plane to Glasgow and we watched The Mars Volta. "I went to Scotland a few times to see shows. Growing up in Northern Ireland, Trimble remembers having to travel far and wide to see his favourite bands live. The closest we've ever gotten to Devo was they did a remix on our last album, which was so exciting we were just thrilled to have someone from Devo put their touch on our music – that was amazing. When Devo is put forward as another example of a band who absolutely nail the uniform look, Trimble acknowledges, "Yeah, Devo's another big influence on this record.
But Kraftwerk was, like, the original inspiration for the hair, for sure." And I wanted to do a similar thing, with this record, where we presented ourselves as these clean-cut, more perfected versions of ourselves I wanted the perfect hair and the make-up and the with not a crease or not a wrinkle. "I'm a huge fan of Kraftwerk and I loved how they always presented themselves not as themselves they were these robot versions of themselves. How good is Two Door Cinema Club's current aesthetic!? Skivvies, matching duds and that Lego man hair! Who came up with this new look for the band? "That was my idea," lead singer/multi-instrumentalist Alex Trimble enthuses.
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