Django Django - Django Django
Critic Score
Based on 26 reviews
2012 Ratings: #56 / 1118
Year End Rank: #22
User Score
Based on 257 ratings
2012 Rank: #209
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Guardian
The songwriting here is routinely top-notch, the album gaining impact as it plays and the moods shift imperceptibly.
91
Paste

Everything combines to enrich, enliven and add texture to the band’s wild aesthetic, which is unlike anything else you’re going to experience this year.

90
Drowned in Sound
It feels effortless. Even after repeated listening it somehow grows on you.
90
No Ripcord

The melodies are catch and pleasing, full of sharply written, witty lyricism. Not a thing about it is forced. It’s a classic slow grower, immediately pleasing but not striking.

85
Under the Radar
Unabashedly geeky and seam-splittingly stuffed with retro-futuristic flourishes, it's an utterly delight.
80
Evening Standard
Django Django's best trick is underpinning the folkie melodies with assertive beats and basslines.
80
The Irish Times
This is one of the year’s freshest, brightest and most inventive debuts.
80
Q Magazine
An album that's consistently mind-melting and often brilliant.
80
Mojo
Django Django confound because they sound gloriously, unpredictably new, but also recall past bands and sounds gone.
80
Uncut
This handsome debut bristles with ideas that could lead to some truly remarkable music later on.
80
NME
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.
80
AllMusic
While it doesn't quite live up to their early hype, it's still an encouraging first offering, suggesting that they might do with album number two.
80
musicOMH
Fresh, inventive and likely to be one of the more promising releases of 2012.
72
Pitchfork

Django Django are bursting with ideas and an intriguing aesthetic that would suggest that their own goals are very keenly defined

70
Rolling Stone

He and his band take a light, spry approach to their groove-centered music, which is experimental but never dour.

70
DIY
It's the perfect embodiment of their character delivered at an often frantically infectious pace.
70
Consequence of Sound

For all its spaced-out, psychedelic wonder and tendency to jump all over the musical map, Django Django comes across as too honest to ever feel over the top. 

70
PopMatters

Their creativity merits praise, and the end result has much to offer.

60
The Observer
Borderline silly at times, it is nonetheless a carefully crafted piece of work with a distinctive sound.
DalekTurret32
99

Back in the early 2010's, I only knew Django Django for their song "Default" (which I got for free on iTunes back in the day). Then came April of 2015, when I got to stream their sophomore album Born Under Saturn a week before it came out (also on iTunes), and found out they had more than just that special song. After having listened to that album and Marble Skies, I thought it would be time to check out their eponymous debut. And now comes the day!
This might be one of the quirkiest ... read more

JayCrackers
82

Fun, catchy and a great album

JesusPigeon
73

I wish I liked this more.
It's pretty quirky and the stand out tracks I love, but the rest is nothing special at all to me

Favorites: Hail Bop, Default, Storm
Least Favorites: Skies Over Cairo, Hand of Man

JesusPigeon
73

I wish I liked this more.
It's pretty quirky and the stand out tracks I love, but the rest is nothing special at all to me

Favorites: Hail Bop, Default, Storm
Least Favorites: Skies Over Cairo, Hand of Man

YungLambo
NR

django unchained

SeanStevens
80

Extremely enjoyable album, a lot of hit tracks, never felt like I was feeling bored or weird about this album. Loved it.

Favourite song is Waveforms

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Track List

1Introduction
2:12
72
2Hail Bop
4:03
84
3Default
3:05
90
4Firewater
4:45
82
5Waveforms
4:26
88
6Zumm Zumm
5:19
53
7Hand of Man
2:36
66
8Love's Dart
3:49
73
9WOR
4:31
89
10Storm
3:14
65
11Life's a Beach
3:05
90
12Skies Over Cairo
3:32
77
13Silver Rays
3:50
65
Total Length: 48 minutes
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Added on: February 5, 2012