Watch It Ginger!

This is the cover for the forthcoming album from the Irish band "Two Door Cinema Club."

I must give in to my baser command of English when I pose this sincere question: What the shit is this shit? 

You have a band made up of three, seemingly non-threatening waif types who write fantastic music that you can listen to over and over again and this is what gets put on the cover of their sophomore album? 

Is this what happens when you transfer pasty lads from the Emerald Isle to the rough streets of L.A. for a recording session? 

I guess the misogyny smog just floats in through a window and gets into everyone's brains.

The lead singer, a sweater-wearing ginger named Alex Trimble has an innocent baby face and his voice makes me imagine that he has a passion for trees and Hush Puppies loafers. He seems like the type who would bring you daisies from a field and ask politely if he could give you a peck on the cheek. 

What the hell were you thinking Trimble? 

This doesn't make the band look cool by the way, it makes them look like a group of douche canoes headed for Douchebag falls.

It's like they wanted to prove that they can, in fact, "get girls" but then they don't know what to do with them so they stick them through the ceiling and wire their crotches for electrical current.

Here we have a hanging vagina lamp and inexplicably, the album is called "Beacon." 

Why? 

Is the light from the glowing hooha there to draw in nerds like little moths and then zap them? 

To me it just looks like a woman being reduced to her reproductive parts and used as decoration. 

And then it gets worse:

This is the image for the single "Sleep Alone."

A woman bound and almost naked on the floor.

To me it looks like she is a powerless victim who might be facing all sorts of horrors, like rape.

I find this image repugnant and said as much in an email to the company that handles the band's U.S. press.

I don't know what the flip these guys were thinking but I hope there's a public outcry and they are compelled to do away with these images.

Until then, I won't be buying any more of the band's music.