For four, long years, Django Django have been busy doing great things in
the East London bedroom slept in by their drummer, producer and de
facto leader David Maclean. The result of those great things is a great
selftitled debut record.
“Time gives you options, and we had plenty of that,” says Vincent Neff,
the
singer and guitarist who – along with bassist Jimmy Dixon and synth
operator Tommy Grace – completes Django Django.
The quartet, who met at art school in Edinburgh, first came to peoples'
attentions after migrating to London. 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.
They’ve produced an album that seems to have everything, but on which
everything never seems too much. Now it is time to get out of the
bedroom, and let playtime begin