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.
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.
Django Django are bursting with ideas and an intriguing aesthetic that would suggest that their own goals are very keenly defined
He and his band take a light, spry approach to their groove-centered music, which is experimental but never dour.
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.
Their creativity merits praise, and the end result has much to offer.
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
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
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
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
1 | Introduction 2:12 | 72 |
2 | Hail Bop 4:03 | 84 |
3 | Default 3:05 | 90 |
4 | Firewater 4:45 | 82 |
5 | Waveforms 4:26 | 88 |
6 | Zumm Zumm 5:19 | 53 |
7 | Hand of Man 2:36 | 66 |
8 | Love's Dart 3:49 | 73 |
9 | WOR 4:31 | 89 |
10 | Storm 3:14 | 65 |
11 | Life's a Beach 3:05 | 90 |
12 | Skies Over Cairo 3:32 | 77 |
13 | Silver Rays 3:50 | 65 |
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#6 | / | The Fly |
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#8 | / | Rough Trade |
#11 | / | NME |
#12 | / | Gigwise |
#12 | / | The Guardian |