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Watch: new Mystery Jets video

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by Kev Kharas
Artists: Mystery Jets

There's a good chance you've heard this track by now and that chance'll turn to certainty by the time the summer's out - in 'Two Doors Down' west London's Mystery Jets have one of the songs of the year, doubtless; and the type of track that'll add at least another 10,000 or so on to sales of the album from which it's plucked.

Luckily, Twenty One (review) is full of hits like this - colourful, naive takes on the sounds of bands from the 'New Pop' section of Simon Reynolds fastly-becoming-seminal Rip it Up and Start Again, tracks that have been spruced by Erol Alkan's clubland production but still retain the essence of the band heard on debut album Making Dens.

So, if you've heard it, enjoy seeing it and if you've seen it, think of this as something for the archives more than an introduction. Chances are you'll return to it at some point.

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Video: Mystery Jets - 'Two Doors Down'

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Pop song of the year...

Brilliant.


Im in this video

IM SO FRICKEN COOL IT HURTS!!!!


Where, where, where?!

Which bit?!


im not the girl....

there is a bit near the end where the band are playing and then a few people run in to join them and the dancers...im the good looking fellow dancing on the left of the screen.
You see me a few times...

OOOOO...im gonna be a star!


Exactly...

my name is gonna be in lights!


Interview

The choice i have before me:
Go to an advance London screening of Iron Man

OR

See Mystery Jets in Oxford, meet and interview the band for Oxford paper.

Thoughts?


I think

that you already know the awnser to that one....


No brainer...

Mystery Jets...

Ask them what they thought about TSRlovesyou's dancing.


i think

we already know the awnser to that too...


Questions

OK it probably is an obvious choice. And suggestions of questions would be welcome.


Go with

1) Where you ever in love with a girl who lived two doors down?
2) Have you ever danced about the room to a worn out 12" of Marquee Moon?
3) With the ongoing implications of the global credit crunch, would a house price crash of around 20% be preferable to a doubling in the rate of inflation?
4) Is that you on the bus?


Christ

I fucking love this song/this album


i was reading that chapter on the tube this morning

also: it sounds like aztec camera


Who directed this?

Was it James Copeman again or not?


indie kidz...

phil collins/abc/aztec camera pastiche is cool now. god!

next ? johnny hates jazz cover.