Stephen Moore
Django Django s fourth album is released by Because Music
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Django Django have been cheerfully surfing their own wave of nerdish, electro-psych-rock for almost a decade, garnering plaudits, coveted slots on console game playlists and mid-table commercial success along the way.
But from the off, Glowing In The Dark feels like a step up for the Mercury-nominated band. Drum rolls and synth arpeggios gather pace in the opener Spirals, an anthem to hope that gleefully slings the listener into the band’s neon-spritzed stratosphere.
It’s immediately followed by the taut guitar motifs, irresistible adrenaline bounce and Beach Boys harmonies of Right The Wrongs and Got Me Worried, together an utterly compelling opening gambit that shows off improved arrangements and lively production. The latter track finds usually upbeat singer Vincent Neff stopping to phone a friend as doubts creep into his lyrics for the first time, and a percussive outro reminiscen
Stephen Moore
Django Django s fourth album is released by Because Music
- Credit: Supplied
Django Django have been cheerfully surfing their own wave of nerdish, electro-psych-rock for almost a decade, garnering plaudits, coveted slots on console game playlists and mid-table commercial success along the way.
But from the off, Glowing In The Dark feels like a step up for the Mercury-nominated band. Drum rolls and synth arpeggios gather pace in the opener Spirals, an anthem to hope that gleefully slings the listener into the band’s neon-spritzed stratosphere.
It’s immediately followed by the taut guitar motifs, irresistible adrenaline bounce and Beach Boys harmonies of Right The Wrongs and Got Me Worried, together an utterly compelling opening gambit that shows off improved arrangements and lively production. The latter track finds usually upbeat singer Vincent Neff stopping to phone a friend as doubts creep into his lyrics for the first time, and a percussive outro reminiscen
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Continuing on their psychedelic style, the latest album from Django Django is a creative work of delirious drum beats.
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London-based art-rock band Django Django are known for their quirky and often strange style. Since starting out in 2009 and releasing their debut self-titled album in 2012, they’ve gained a decent following due to their creative and unique sound. This sound has been reflected clearly in both their second and third studio albums,
Born Under Saturn (2015) and
Marble Skies (2018), yet their latest album
Glowing in the Dark attempts to adapt this style with a new sense of delirium and psychedelia.
Released February 12 Nine years since their Mercury nominated eponymous debut album, the Djangos have undoubtedly become one of the most inventively progressive bands to escape from the confines of the Scottish music scene. Now onto their eagerly awaited fourth album, a term overused but is always legitimate for this four-piece Edinburgh-formed avant-pop combo, there was further curiosity at just how they would manage with a recording process punctuated by lockdown. The insanely catchy hook-filled acid-inflected early single and Moog-fest album title track is up there with Hail Bop, Tic Tac Toe, In Your Beat and Life s a Beach as almost perfect pop music and promised much. It remains a go-to track months after release.