Album Review: Django Django Django Django

As electronic genres form and then just as quickly mutate or fall by the wayside, it is refreshing to discover an act that seems to inhabit their own niche, combining familiar sounds to produce fresh and unique music. Django Django have made a connection between pop, electronica, krautrock and glam rock, weaving it all together in one seamless, neverending mix of upbeat rhythms and sing-song lyrics with impressive results.

The best track is the infectious bounce of Default, incorporating a mutant riff that sounds like Josh Homme jamming with Fatboy Slim. The vocal style of Vinny Neff is a constant robotic stream of rhymes and pop art mantras that sits between the English nursery rhyme naivety of Syd Barrett and futuristic blues and gospel proselytising. Everything, including his vocals, revolves around the rhythm of the songs, which gives them such a tight driving sound. The other strength Django Django bring to the party is simplicity. There are few slow builds or massive bass drops, with most tracks possessing a linear feel of forward movement, much as Kraftwerk did decades earlier. The repetition of the band's name is replicated in their music with stuttering notes multiplying the effect of a musical point being hammered. On Zumm Zumm it borders on annoying levels but somehow manages to know exactly when to relieve the listener's nerve endings and shift gears.

This is a playful, adrenalin-stirring modern pop record that, by virtue of its individuality, stands head and shoulders above most of the weekly deluge of new music.