Never ones to rush out new material, it’s always exciting when Brit favourites Django Django make their sudden return, and today they have released their first new material in a couple of years in the form of new single “Spirals”, an exciting taster of what’s to come.
They kick off the new track with a steady revving-up, as if they’re going to launch into a dead-ahead post-punk jam, but instead they just continue ascending, both lyrically and musically evoking the titular “Spirals”. With a galloping drum pattern energising the intertwining guitar and bass melodies, Django Django are gung-ho in the best way possible – punctuated by the timely ding of a bell, putting a fine point on just how tight and joyous they sound. Truly dizzying, “Spirals” is an art-pop song that is in constant upward motion, and it is muscular enough to carry you up into the stratosphere with it, where you’ll get a view of just how much Django Django have in mind with their new material.
The video for “Spirals” was created by Maxim Kelly, who says:
“The approach behind Spirals by Django Django was to translate the psychedelic trip through The Victorian technique of the phénakisticope. The visual illusion generated by spinning the disks at the correct speed coupled with the shutter of a camera is both confusing and hypnotic. I was drawn to how the animations flow in and out, drifting and duping the mind and then back again. This felt a lot like the psychedelic experience tome. The challenge was to fuse the old with the modern. The analogue and the digital. Updating and modernising the technique.“
“Spirals” is released today through Because Music. A 10″ b/w new song “The Ark” is available from http://www.djangodjango.co.uk.
