Django Django | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 25 March 2013 - 2:01pm

These choices had to be from Guardian top 20 end of year list for 2012

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Artist:

Django Django

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a_130

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Year:

2 012

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0000

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Track-listing:

Introduction*Hail Bop*Default*Firewater*Waveforms*Zumm Zumm*Hand Of Man*Love’s Dart*WOR*Storm*Life’s A Beach*Skies Over Cairo*Silver Rays

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_49

Now-num:

2 013

Spotify-URL:

3pqPOPqLgIwLaE4ZuVhYlg

Grooveshark-URL:

Django+Django/7502892

Short-title:

djangoDjango

nominator-ID:

u_13

Meeting-date:

Thursday, 18 April 2013

MusicBrainz-URL:

dd7f2b3e-dcc6-4b7c-b8fd-7f73eb4bd66a

Wikipedia-URL:

Django_Django_(album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

django-django/django-django

Discogs-URL:

Django-Django-Django-Django/master/416564

Allmusic-URL:

django-django-mw0002289370

BBC-URL:

bpfd

rdio-URL:

Django_Django/album/Django_Django

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75

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Life's A Beach and then you get your surfboard

3-4-6-12

10-13

I can see how this may irritate people – there’s a sort of relentlessly cheery, whacky quirkiness to it that could rub people up the wrong way but I find it pretty listenable. There's some good tunes, some good sounds, some handclaps and glam-rock style drumming, and some well thought out lyrical phrases. It's one for all the family, I guess, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

It does sound like the Beta Band (not the first time I've said that) but that's not necessarily a bad thing either.

It could do with a bit of variety of pace but where they try a slower, more emotional ballady one, I’m thinking Hand of Man, his voice doesn’t really manage to deal with it that well. Fortunately they otherwise generally steer clear and stick to the incessant uptempo whackiness.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
64

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

2-3-9-11

They sound like the Fleet Foxes and The Beta Band. They have a few very decent tracks, but way too many fillers that lack inspiration.
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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

The Kids Are Alright?

12

I feel a bit sorry for young people if this is the best of what's around at the moment.