With the most pointlessly Poltergeisty video this week…

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Brad Shoup: Is there an antonym for earworm?
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John Seroff: Kat and I were the only two to find something worthwhile in Two Door’s last Singles offering and, though my enthusiasm is somewhat tempered by the lack of a memorable hook, I’m still willing to stand by this one as well.  “Sleep Alone” gets by on a running start and a persistent kick drum; something about the trebly tenor of lead singer Alex Trimble’s delivery bypasses my long-held “white guy with guitar” prejudice.  It’s music I’d welcome in a strange bar as a secret handshake that says “we’re a bit cooler than we look”. 
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Will Adams: This is more of the same. “The same” here means “catchy, up-tempo, synth-imbued rock with surfing guitar lines, all dusted with a vocal that teeters on a precipice.” I won’t complain for now.
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Patrick St. Michel: Two Door Cinema Club are a great festival act, their fluffy take on Bloc-Party-esque Britrock working best when they have hundreds of people jumping up and down to their music.  I imagine “Sleep Alone” would wow the same crowds I watched go batshit crazy for every single song these guys played, what with the continuous propulsion and easy-to-shout lyrics.  Unfortunately, coming out of headphones, this fails to leave much of a mark beyond “that was alright.”
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Katherine St Asaph: This is either an Owl City song for those who liken his collaboration with Carly Rae Jepsen to Coke switching to high fructose corn syrup, or an I Am Kloot song without accents. One of these is quite listenable.
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Anthony Easton: I thought it was impossible for the song to be any more precious than the band’s name — but the mewling like a kitten who has had their milk taken away  from them accomplishes the task. 
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Alfred Soto: “We know what we see/cuz we’re always fast asleep” the singer avers over pretty six-string ripples, fully aware that a battalion of undistinguished guitar bands will sleepwalk into English homes.
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Jonathan Bogart: If the pale, watery youth of Britain wish to inflict this self-imitation on their own ears, that’s their business. I don’t see why I should be bothered about it.
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Iain Mew: As the owner of multiple albums by the likes of Haven and Lowgold I feel like I’m not in a place to be too harsh on low-impact indie, but at least they had misery as some kind of feature. Also they were midtable followers of bigger bands I liked more, but the current lot like these guys and Bombay Bicycle Club are somehow the big bands themselves, and yet I can’t grab hold of anything to feel anything about in most of their songs. It makes me feel old and a bit sad because I’ve spent so long reading people accusing bands I liked of being beige non-music and this is the first time that I find myself thinking it about anyone.
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