Sound it Out # 20: Django Django – "Default"
I'm just nuts about Django Django. I could give you a bunch of biographical facts about them meeting at a Scottish art school and writing songs in apartments, but really what I want to say is THIS BAND IS SPECIAL and THEIR RECORD IS WORTH YOUR MONEY, SO BUY IT.
How to describe the music? Charmingly eccentric. Electronic yet organic. Some might hear the spacey vocal style and deem it psychedelic. Others will find it so winning and listenable that they will say it's pop. Let's just say that it makes perfect sense that drummer/producer/de facto bandleader David MacLean's older brother was in The Beta Band.
Django Django's debut album is already in my top 5 for 2012. It's out in the UK and should be out soon in the rest of the world. They're playing their first US dates in New York March 10-12 and at the South by Southwest festival in Austin next week. I was actually tempted to fly out to see them.
