DJANGO DJANGO Vinyl & CDs

Review: Every time you get hold of a new album from Django Django, or even just a single, the rush of excitement is real. Formed of friends who met at Edinburgh School of Art, there's always been something unique, highly creative and resolutely fun about their output, straddling dancefloor material with rougher edged alternative rock and plain experimental oddities, leading to the kind of results we've not been lucky enough to experience much of since the demise of the Madchester scene.
In many ways, the quartet have already given us more replay value than the baggy indie era, and Off Planet is arguably the finest hour, and certainly the broadest offering, to date. Tracks like the light and au naturel 'Come Down' contrast the club-ready breakbeat piano rave of 'Complete Me' (which features none other than Self Esteem) or the classical-jungle hybrid 'Osaka'. 'Lunar Vibrations' goes for hypnotising synth pop, 'Galaxy Mood' brings in acidic squelch, 'Dumdum' belongs on DFA. Another triumph.

Review: Another Cheap Thrill's byline is "cool shit when we feel like it", perhaps even rivalling We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records in affective coolness (just remember, if you want to succeed in today's music ecology, make sure to project an aura of listless ease). The Newcastle label present here a brand new one from our favourite noughts-10s indie disco graphers Django Django, the London quartet formed of Dave Maclean, Jimmy Dixon, Tommy Grace and Vincent Neff. It adds to the long tradition of limited 12"s largely released by the band through Because Music, but 'Home' is different: its ultra-polished indie disco falsettos and synthy steel-pan-esque progressions reveal a band happily devoted to the art of the single. Not to mention *that* version from Man Power, which has Mr Fingers' ghostly fingers all over it...