Django Django

Reviews:

9.0  Drowned In Sound
8.0  MusicOMH
7.0  Bowlegs

Other resources:

Make Create playlist based on similar artists playlist

Django Django

by Django Django

Added 2012-02-10 09:10:00Z

Avg rating: 8.0  |  802 plays  |  Indie & Alternative

Django Django who met at art school in Edinburgh, first came to peoples' attentions after a gradual migration to London a couple of years back. 2009’s double A-side single ‘Storm’/’Love's Dart’ laid the blueprint for a confident, adventurous and psychedelically-bruised strain of art-rock that melds intangible electronic flourishes to the visceral rub of live instrumentation. The time since has been spent holed away, expanding upon that blueprint, seeing where they can push it. The impression one gets of Django Django is of a band laying down the first, meticulously measured borders on some vast map of a world that only they are privy to. Correspondent to that, each track is like its own nation of harmonies, rhythms and textures. What that means in practice is the swooning, bucolic Beach Boy-isms of opening track ‘Hail Bop’ and the sterner, questing Bo Diddley beat guitars of ‘Life's A Beach’. The industrious, go-getting tattoo verses of ‘Firewater’ and the sleepy cowboy sighs of ‘Silver Rays’. ‘Default’ and ‘Waveforms’ are future singles. The former sounds like an uprising in a Mexican gun factory, the latter The Glitter Band's ‘Rock And Roll Part 2’ disappearing from sight like a particularly successful Kongming Lantern.
 
Django Django’s story looks set to be a long and compelling one. By banging together their thirst for adventure and their exacting high standards, they’ve produced an album that seems to have everything, but on which everything never seems too much.
 
Read more from Norman Records: Django Django by Django Django: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. LP (vinyl), Because, BEC5161106, £14.79.
Description by Norman Records

Popular last month

  1. Sin and Lostness

    Sin and Lostness

    The Lost Rivers
    385 plays
  2. Animal Joy

    Animal Joy

    Shearwater
    367 plays
  3. Where the Sands Turn to Gold

    Where the Sands Turn to Gold

    Azusa Plane
    351 plays
  4. Ghostory

    Ghostory

    School Of Seven Bells
    327 plays
  5. Life Is Full of Possibilities
  6. Locked Down

    Locked Down

    Dr. John
    272 plays