Off Planet vinyl

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.