Glowing in the Dark

イースト・ロンドンを拠点とするアート・ロック・バンド、ジャンゴ・ジャンゴによる約4年ぶりの4thアルバム、完成!

前作『Marble Skies』に続き、フランス出身の女優/歌手 シャルロット・ゲンズブールとのコラボレーションを
含む全13曲を収録!

これまで同様、ドラマーのデイビッド・マクリーンによるセルフ・プロデュース作!

U.K. quartet Django Django have been honing their peculiar strain of art-pop since the beginning of the 2010s, weaving together bits of angular surf guitar, glowing synths, and rich vocal harmonies with a strong electronic undercurrent. Over three previous albums, their ability to absorb multiple eclectic styles (new wave, modern psych, Krautrock minimalism) and compress them into something new has made them a consistently interesting band. A decade into their career, Django Django return with Glowing in the Dark, their fourth album together. With the bandmates no longer living in a common geographical orbit, a conscious move was made to work more efficiently during their recording sessions. At the pace of roughly a song a day, they put their heads together and approached each song with a newfound alacrity. Django Djangos arrangements are rarely simple and for the most part, this holds true on Glowing in the Dark, but there is a kind of immediacy and uplift to a number of the songs, particularly the shimmering opener Spirals and the bouncy pop of Free from Gravity. Theres always been a slightly obtuse playfulness to the bands music, which comes out here on tracks like the fizzy Headrush and especially the title track, a driving electro-dance rocker with a signature hook that resembles their 2012 gem Default. There is more diverse fare as well, like the dramatic prog-pop of Night of the Buffalo with its soaring string coda courtesy of Syd Arthur member Raven Bush and the lush, acoustic The World Will Turn. Aside from a fondness for glassy clean bass tones, the overall production is not too dissimilar from their earlier albums. A band already known as stylistic mavericks doesnt necessarily need to keep reinventing itself and yet, after four albums, Django Django enter their middle years seeming a little bit stuck in a mold of their own design. As a whole, Glowing in the Dark is a mostly solid, well-built album with enough standouts to keep it fresh without venturing too far out of the groups wheelhouse. ~ Timothy Monger