Django Django are an art-pop foursome from Edinburgh that first started garnering attention in 2009.
Their latest self titled release begins with ‘Hail Bop’, a baffling mix of tribal drums, electro-whooshes, whistles, and cricket chirrups. This gives way to the kind of irresistible chant-chorus that peppers the entire album. There are echoes of Hot Chip in ‘Hand Of Man’, while ‘Love’s Dart’ is drum machine-bedded acoustic fingerpicking sliced from the most tender parts of Gruff Rhys’ brain. Out in front, though, is the Tarantino-theme-via-Calexico bounce of ‘Life’s A Beach’ – as immediate anthem. It’s an album characterised by its sharp stylistic swerves, but never feels jumbled or incoherent. I would skip Zumm Zumm altogether but the rest of the tracks are all hits.
It’s a dream of the psychedelic tropics, a heady explosion of colours, an album that takes what it means to be ‘in an indie band’ and gives it a good shake.
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01 – Introduction
02 – Hail Bop
03 – Default
04 – Firewater
05 – Waveforms
06 – Zumm Zumm
07 – Hand of Man
08 – Love’s Dart
09 – Wor
10 – Storm
11 – Life’s a Beach
12 – Skies Over Cairo
13 – Silver Rays
