Django Django

This is their debut album, bursting with sophisticated tunes that get your foot tapping and grab your attention with little interesting quirks thrown in here and there. The Introduction track starts off slightly brooding but melodic. 2nd track Hail Bop is more upbeat and playful, presumably a tribute to the comet with the line " I've been waiting for you so long and now you've taken off again" having a humourous touch. Default is infectious pop, so 3 great tracks to start the album off. Waveforms has catchy percussion,(which is innovative and varied throughout the album), synthesisers build up, then great vocal harmonies come in with a clear nod to the Beach Boys. The songs initially sound simple, but listen carefully and there are lots of subtle nuances that you pick up, and it is clever, varied and lovely stuff that grows on you with repeated listens. There are interesting samples and odd quirky sounds inserted here and there, but they embelish rather than distract from the overall sound and feel. Track 6, Zumm Zumm, repeats "Got to get to know you" in various ways to good effect and is uptempo and a strong song. Hands of Man is a sparser track with less electronics, more guitar and vocal harmonies, a quieter moment that cools down the tempo nicely. On Love's Dart the pecussion is fantastic, sometimes sounding like horses hooves clopping, intriguing, quirky and fascinating. War has the sound of sirens at the start, then twangy guitar comes in and the track cumulatively builds up. Storm is upbeat which you would expect with that title, while Skies Over Cairo is an instrumental with an Egyptian flavoured motif, a fun track. I have had this album a few weeks now, it has garnered favourable critical reviews from a wide variety of sources, and is destined to be in many peoples end of year favourites, fresh, different, entertaining, a stunning debut. It will definitely be one of my top albums from 2012.

DJANGO DJANGO & THEIR DEBUT ALBUM I THINK IS JUST A FASTASTIC ALBUM A REALLY GREAT BAND

I don't tend to write reviews very often, but this album was definitely worth writing about!I always worry with debuts that the one famous song will be the only good track on the album but fortunately this album delivers on every track. Very dance-y in places, quiet in others, it's a very accomplished debut. I'd say if you liked the Animal Collective or Caribou you'd like this too.My fave tracks are the livelier ones - Default, Storm and Life's A Beach - but I also particularly like the harmonies and melody of Hand of Man which is much more pared back and in contrast to the electronic sounds on some of the other tracks.Totally worth a listen! Now to try and get tickets to a live show...

Love the Beta Band and Aliens echoes in this - wonder how they crept in !?!?! What I mean of course is the fantastic vocal harmonies and psychedelic vibe. Great record ....well done - I really like it esp Hail Bop.Classic Tune.Storm is really good too.Boptastic with ace reverb and delightful vocals.

Occassionally but all too rarely I wake up in the middle of the night with an amazing tune in my head, but thanks to an alzheimers memory and a complete lack of musical ability am unable to do anything about it, ie, bottle it for prosperity and perhaps fame and fortune. This album is packed full of such tunes. I would have preferred a few more contemporary highlights to have come to the fore amongst the retro sounds that build-up on most tracks only to stymie anything modernistic that was threatening to come through. But nevertheless I count this band as one of my best finds of the last few years. If you dream the same tunes as me you'll love it!

Heard tracks from this on 6 Music (which I have streaming most days when I am at home) and immediately ordered the album.There are two sensibilities at work in this band (at least) and I think I like one ("Life's a Beach", "Skies over Cairo" ...) a bit more than the other - which is a bit less appealing ("Hail Bop") to me. But overall a great album and one I am glad I bought.How to characterise it? think Electronica and harmony pop mixed up in equal measure, with tendencies towards Squeeze style chord changes and bridges.

Fanstastic album, my favourite of 2013. I can't wait for their next album to be released. Song after song is great and I couldn't get enough of it. Hard to describe the style of music, sort of, electonicy alternative. I would say, if you were a fan of Alt J, you would enjoy Django Django too.Would definitely suggest this album. I think that if anyone gives it a chance, they will love it.

This is a great debut Lp, which comes across as a more commercial, funked-up Beta Band high on indie grooves. It's quite an achievement for any band to release a 12 track album with no filler or lulls, but these boys have done it.The vocal arrangements are done to perfection, and the whole thing a wondrous journey of psychedelic inventiveness. Recommended.

Cd muy bueno, llego en excelente condición, se agradece muchísimo 👏

One of my favourite albums, recommend!

Es un disco irregular, con algunos temas buenos y otros de relleno, aunque se puede escuchar y los buenos están muy bien.

I have ADHD, and it's hard for me to listen to a whole album of one band all the way through (no matter how much I like the band) because the sound gets too monotonous after a few tracks, or because I keep running across tracks I don't much like. So I usually listen to mixed playlists, and can list on a few of fingers of one hand the names of bands whose albums I can listen to all the way through and then press repeat (most notably: Muse). DJANGO DJANGO IS NOW ONE OF THEM! I have had this in the disc drive of my car for weeks now and it's almost all I listen to besides talk radio.And a few tracks on this album I could pretty much just press repeat on and listen to the same song a million times. Most notably, # 11 : "Life's A Beach." They sound like the love child of The Beach Boys and... I dunno... Architecture in Helsinki's sophisticated older brother? But that would make The Beach Boys the girl in this scenario... :/ Anyway, those of you with better band vocabulary than I can probably pin down a better description once you listen to it. But I can at least say it's very rhythmically interesting, got a good bass line (makes driving feel a little extra fun ;) ), very well-scored, instrumentally diverse, and somewhat experimental-sounding without being alienating. In fact, I would even call it catchy. Even the tracks I didn't much like to begin with have grown on me.If you don't like a lot of repetition of rhythms or phrases within songs (as is common in electronic-y music), then this might not be the album for you. But I like to think this band has enough creative variation across and between the repeated sections that it's not obnoxious. They push the line a bit in # 4 Zumm Zumm with the "got to get to know"s, but like I said--even that song has grown on me.

Großartige Gitarren-Riffs, ein Beat, der bei jedem Song sofort zur Bewegung animiert.Viele der Songs werden zweistimmig eingespielt, wirkt dadurch RETRO, was aber durch den Synthesizer, der nie fehlplatziert wirkt, wieder ausgeglichen wird.Intellektuelle Texte (ich verstehe sie zumindest nicht immer so richtig...)!SUPER!! Kann ich nur empfehlen