SELECTIVE MEMORY PRESENTS
DJANGO DJANGO
+ Pictish Trail
Sunday 10th October 2021
The Academy, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
Following the release of their superb and acclaimed fourth album ‘Glowing in the Dark’ earlier this year; British art rock/electronic fusion maestros DJANGO DJANGO play their first Irish show in over three years when they visit Dublin’ Academy on Sunday 10th October.
Recently described by The Guardian as ‘making music that sounds close to perfection’; the four-piece have established a solid following in Ireland over the last decade, with consistently inventive and exhilarating new music, and memorable shows at the main festivals here. See more below, particularly the gushing media quotes about the new album.
Tickets to DJANGO DJANGO , Sunday 10th October 2021 , at Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 are EU28.00 (plus bkg fee) and are on sale at 9am this Friday 23rd April 2021 from www.selectivememory.ie and Ticketmaster
Some of the praise for Django Django’s new album ‘Glowing in the Dark’
“9/10 – excellent…their most distinctive and mature so far” – Loud and Quiet
“4 stars – deft and captivating” – Album of the Week, Metro
“4 stars – Glowing in the Dark is very much for these times” – Mojo
“8/10 – an irresistible lovestruck confection” – Uncut
“4 stars – the pleasure principle is writ large here” – The Arts Desk
“4 stars – When the songwriting and appetite for invention remains this strong, Django Django certainly have a lot more to give” – DIY Magazine
Over the course of their extraordinarily accomplished discography to date, Django Django have constantly headed left where others have gone right. Recently described by The Guardian as “making music that sounds close to perfection” , they are known for their genre defying eclectic sound and their new album “Glowing in the Dark”, out today, heralds, once again, the beginning of a thrilling new era for the band.
Already drawing rave reviews from the likes of Uncut, Mojo, Loud and Quiet and more, Glowing in the Dark has a running theme of escape. Escape from despair, from constraints, from small town life, and even, in dreams, from the Earth, as on the propulsive title track. The miniature road movie “Waking Up”, meanwhile, with its hints of T Rex and Serge Gainsbourg’s “Bonnie and Clyde” might be mainly acoustic and softly sung, but it rockets along with breathless anticipation, the addition of Gainsbourg’s daughter Charlotte on vocals adding extra glamour, and “Free From Gravity” might be the most complete expression of the band’s influences coming together, with beautiful cascading bleep melodies and strings wrapping around the funkiest stop-start drum machine and a relentlessly infectious bassline to perfectly embody the bittersweet theme of yearning to “escape everything that’s weighing you down”.
It’s a glorious move forward, infused with the kind of freshness and confidence that comes hand in hand with a newfound optimism. Glowing in the Dark is a record about escape but also one full of hope: and that’s the sound of experience, because this is a band who know what it is to exceed even your wildest dreams.