Reviews (page 7 of 7)
It's fine, I just don't feel like I'll revist it again. I listned to this way back when, and it was fine then as well.
Almost had me at a great album in the first track Rest is very meh Odd album
dj ango
Starts out with a double whammy ("Hail Bop" and "Default") but fades into generic 00s electronic pop territory after that. Not very exciting. Too many songs sound almost completely identical and sort of goofy.
"Default" had an exciting sound when it came out but none of their other songs have shown much of that same magic. Some of the songs are underwhelming, others are downright annoying. Seems to have done well critically but I don't get it, I hear one good song.
A bag of almost. Almost funky. Almost interesting. Almost catchy. There are no cracks to enter into this musical world, its too hermetically produced. It’s krautrock without edge, indietronica without emotion. But my main problem with connecting with this is probably the singing style. The song is more of an instrument than a human to connect to.
Not my type of music.
Bit repetitive
Interesting approach, but the vocals/melodies are lazy and it all blurs into what sounds like one giant soundtrack for a bunch of adverts
If the Beach Boys were transported to 2012 I think they would sound a lot like this band. The instrumentation was fine, but there's something about this type of harmonized vocals that really rubs me the wrong way so when they started singing it was a real slog for me. Oh and for the record, I hate the Beach Boys.
weird, nicht mein vibe
What on earth is this? Beats the one star review trap purely because I like some of the synth sounds.
This is a weird one. Kinda liked it when it was at its most minimal and just leaned into the electronic nature of it all in a song like "Love's Dart." But much of the time I was just like: "This kinda sounds like Beck. And I don't feel good about that." And that's just where things lay.
No me gustó
Nothing remarkable about any of this. Sounds like a bad attempt to combine Hot Chip and Grizzly Bear. Didnt like it.
Not my style ..
Beep boop music. Quite heavy on the tambourine also. Most popular track gave me a headache
Meh
Contains half-baked yet well-produced beats, whine-some harmonies, and an overall vaguely boring atmosphere that tries hard to be cheerful.
This was okay, but the vocals sounded pretty much the same on every track. I’d say there were one or two songs I actually liked and the rest just slid right by me.
Who thought that white British Afro-dance was a good idea
Background music for some sort of cheesy wine bar. Like Hot Chip without the imagination. Truly forgettable songs. I have no idea why this made the list, and can only guess they were owed a favour. Not my kind of thing (obviously!).
So, I don't know what it is about this album. It's sorta experimental on the surface, but feels very manufactured underneath. It has things I like, but they don't feel authentic to me. I wanna like this, but I just can't. 2.49/5
Like i guess? Seems like the this is good, but there has to be a lot like it
The curves of the cover and Django Django's name speak true: Drums never point the way along a vector. The rainbow flows through space with its feet firmly on the ground. The entire package is fine; Individual impressions dissolve rather quickly, leaving a more unfair reviewer with every passing minute. Faking the gaze out may be the goal. One listen has me sated.
Indie borecore. Big fan of some of their peers but struggled to get through this.
I guess it’s not awful enough for one star, but there’s not much here for me.
Some tracks that were decent and nice to listen to, some that felt held baked, and at least a couple that had no redeeming qualities but the one throughline of the album was a very unexciting vocal delivery.
Meh
first time listening Favorites Hail bop Firewater Life’s a Beach Least Favorite Zumm Zumm
Here is what this album made me think of. It felt like I was listening to a story of a robot who was stuck in a desert wandering. The robot thinks it’s a human and is desperately searching for water. The robot passes many oasis’s and presses on slowly melting from the suns heat. The robot is lost and abandoned, it thinks there are people waiting for its return home but little does it know it was abandoned and left to rust. (That was kind of dark)
Interesting instrumentals but don’t really care for the vocals. Probably wouldn’t return to this album
I appreciated how unique this album was, and that each song really sounded different from the previous one. I thought within the songs themselves they were far too repetitive and the album as a whole didn’t mesh for me at all.
Very reminiscent of west coast 60s surf rock. It's okay, but my initial enthusiasm faded as each track started to sound similar to the one before it. It's pleasant background music and it didn't grate, but I doubt I will listen to it ever again.
This was kinda cool. Not sure how I would classify it.
This is the musical equivalent of the chick at my work who held a high tea for the royal wedding. It's weak and bland, it keeps a blog where it talks about dream holidays in Paris, it's never been kissed and may well never be if it keeps watching the Disney channel into its 30s. I could take pot shots at it, but it would be seriously punching down to have a go at something so wretched and pathetic. So I will just say it's "not for me" and leave a quiet 2/5.
Dit was zeker apart, maar leuk is anders
I remember hearing this for the first time on BBC Radio 2 when it first came out. I was sitting there having a poopoo in my family bathroom. I just thought it was Franz Ferdinand at the time, which says if all really.
Huoh aika väsynyttä. Kulki rasautuksen rajamailla ja vaikuttaa isolta brittibiakselta tunkea tämä listalle. Nippa nappa säästyy ykköseltä. Kokemusta ei auttanut, että sporassa vierustoveri taisi kusta housuun.
I recognised a couple of these and I feel I know what this was going for... Maybe Hot Chip vibez but it didn't real the spot for me tbh. I guess it was fun and might be good to see at a festival but I wasn't fussed tbh
Aimless electronic noodling. It felt like a 3 for a long time but the “harmonies” soon got old and they never quite found a decent chorus.
A big album of nothingness. Why is this even on the list? Far better albums out there.
Not a bad album, but I fail to see how this album could be counted in any “best of” list. It’s simply not good enough. At the time, I actually quite liked the band’s Born Under Saturn album, whereas this one never attracted my attention.
Meh. Kendte godt sangen Default, men den er rimelig gennemsnitlig.
I am sure someone loves this album, but it’s not for me.
This one wasn't really for me. Most of the songs had some repeating electronic line or beat that was irritating and stupid. I can see how folks would be into this though. I liked the lyrics and songwriting, just not the execution. Wouldn't say it sucked just didn't like it.
Good debut album but nothing really special that stands out
Was okay, very middle of the road for me. Neat ideas but a lack of distinct songwriting hurts this album a bit I think.
Surprised to see this album here. Never heard of them and even after listening I will probably never hear of them again. It's ok music, nothing bad, but there are no stand out tracks. Really nothing standing out at all...
I appreciate the attempt they made but I just feel the album wasn't as cool as they wanted it to be
I like it. Won’t listen again. Sounds like Depeche Mode.
made very little impression on me
A few good hits. Some interesting grooves and a cool blend of dance with country twang. But some of it is pretty dull and the singing is passable at its best
Bah, ruim.
Not for me
no -1 please
Horrible album, parece un techno de la jungla
This self-titled debut from Django Django definitely leans into a stripped-back, simpler take on that classic Beatles vibe, but unfortunately, it didn't quite land for me. I found the songs to be a bit too repetitive, and even though each track is its own thing, the riffs seemed to drag on for way too long. There are also some country-leaning elements sprinkled throughout, and since country is one of my least favorite genres, that really brought down my enjoyment of the album. I struggled to pick out a standout track as nothing really jumped out at me, and ultimately, I couldn't even make it through the whole record because it just wasn't my thing. Overall, this album failed to hold my interest and was ultimately a disappointing listen.
Meh
Dirge
When old guys like me say modern "music" sucks. This is why. 1
Just want to understand why this garbage is in here
so so so so so so so so so bad omg
The potential was there on the first song but my god… this got tedious as it went on. The more they sang the more I checked out. I barely finished it.
I’ve never come closer to giving up.
Not my stuff
Meh
Varias de las canciones me suenan como si le regalaran una mesa de dj a un nene de 6 años. Por otro lado tienen partes divertidas.
Didn’t listen
Needless and tuneless. The only emotion this plinky plink nonsense arouses is anger.
I hear a foghorn.... boooooooooo-ring. Forgot I was listening to it halfway through. That second half was rough.
A bunch of boy scouts download FL Studio and get crackin.
Tied to a moment in alt rock and not one i find particularly interesting. It's fine but not insightful or grabbing really at all which in the context of this exercise probably means i have to penalize it.
This is my personal bias but firmly not for me. Background music for "art types" who don't make any art
Es como si star wars fuera una peli western con tintes de pantera rosa y tetris. Seguro que tiene su público pero yo no soy parte de él. Es como si Adam se hubiera puesto a componer música.
Not for me
Chato demais.
i didn’t even realise i was listening to this…..
🤨
I don't like this music.
Absolute horse shit
Boring
Hail Bop Default
I expect someone paid big money to have this album included. I’ll give it one star because at least they knew how to play instruments, and I give myself five stars for finishing the whole thing.
Not for me
Not good.
A challenge but maybe just not my thing?
Fav: Skies Over Cairo Least Fav: Zumm Zumm I was waiting for it to end, and it felt like I was waiting for an eternity, I think one of the reviews comparing it to The Beta Band encapsulated why I dislike this album
Remove this
This sucks. I don’t even like The Beach Boys
Love the first 8 seconds of frogs. If you could eliminate the electronic sounds and singing I would listen to it.
I deeply dislike this style of Sirius XMU-core indie rock, which thinks it can capture the magic of a band like Animal Collective through — and I'm sorry to use this word in two consecutive reviews — pastiche. Some versions of this, like Tune-Yards or Dirty Projectors, are obviously dated but still have melody and soul behind them. This has nothing. Its inclusion here can only be explained by recency bias, as a misfired attempt to identify what might one day be part of the canon without the benefit of it having been canonized.
Bland and preppy music for junior executives. Music for adverts right enough. I really wasn't in the mood for this.
Not for me
Wasn’t really for me Lots of different sounds and textures but they never lined up for me
It wasn't really... Good. But at the same time, it also wasn't interesting.
"art rock band". "2012 Mercury Music Prize". Both phrases are enough to get my heart plummeting. My expectations were met. "Clever", tedious, soulless, mechanical. The band doesn't sound very interested and neither am I. 1/5.
yeah its not my thing....
A band called Django Django with a song called Zumm Zumm is just never going to cut the mustard for me. Too cute by half, the names, and the music’s the same. Jaunty, clever, bright—things certain men of a certain age look for in their mistresses. Or not even look for, but are taken by. Smitten with. Much to the surprise, even confusion, of their business partners and golf buddies. “Tiffany?” they say to each other, grimacing, when he’s gone to the john. “From marketing?” More raised eyebrows than that time Terry retired early so he could do missionary work “before it’s too late.” And the wife! The wife is more shocked than his buddies—and ultimately more shocked than surprised. For years, she had a suspicion. Not about his infidelity—it never occurred to him that he had it in him, tbh—but rather that she didn’t really like him. That she didn’t think he was as smart as their little circle liked to make him feel. That she didn’t find his jokes all that funny. That maybe she never had—though the latter she could only admit to herself after three espresso martinis, which she indulged in no more than every other year. Maybe every 18 months. Well, there was that mom’s night at the tiki lounge around Christmas. That’d been mai tais, but still. And Sarah’s party at the country and western line dancing place last weekend. Okay, so she was drinking more than she had been before the kids left for college. Okay. So, what? Apparently she had reason to! Clearly. She’s angry, of course, busy she quickly discovers it’s mostly at herself, for having been so blind. And no, that’s not quite it, either. For not having had the courage to admit her suspicions. For having always talked herself out of her less generous reactions. For not having been more of a bitch. God, yes, that was it. Whenever she had been a bitch to him, she’s felt so good about it! So good about herself. Her secret lizard heart. But then he would sulk and she would apologize and take on the blame. Pile on the blame. But now! Oh-ho-ho, now! Now she could be fully her bitchiest self. It was a weight immediately gone. She thought of the burros they’d seen walking Colombian steep hillsides in the eje cafetera several years ago, stacks and stacks of 50 lb. burlap sacks of green coffee beans on their backs. She had loathed that trip. The poor burros had been the best part. She remembered their sighs when the last bag was lifted off and they were turned loose into the corral. She understood them, then—and empathizes now. The relief. The sense of coming into her own. If there was any anger left, it was at having wasted so much of her life with this snail of a man. But the vindication that she had been right all along to suspect him of being such a snail—this was, well, it was bliss. And it obliterated any regret. She was free now. And she could devour anyone she wanted. He wanted some cute half-wit half his age? That’s what he wanted to do with his 50s? Ridiculous. So fucking juvenile. God, what a loser. What a snail. She liked this “snail” that she had stumbled upon. She would never fuck a snail again. Lions only for her, from now on. Big CrossFit Viking-looking motherfuckers. No Django Djangos. No Zumm Zumms.
Boring
Uninteresting Uninspiring Unimaginative Simplistic Boring
I’m in a crap mood today so that might be coloring my review here, but I just can’t get into this one. It’s fine, sometimes interesting sonically, but it fails to grab my attention.
Oh hell no… this sounds like the Beatles but electronica. Hard pass.
Not at all convinced by this. It's okay, but it seems to be at a crossroads between art rock and psychedelic music and not knowing which direction to take. Overall, it's neither much fun nor much of a slap in the face.
Thought I might have heard of one of these songs on TV or video games, but no.......
Not for me
Who left the studio door open and the synth on? I told you don’t play with these things unless you know what you’re doing. Or for god’s sake, be with an adult who can show you what to do. No one wants you to not play music but get some lessons. This is everything rock or pop shouldn’t be. Thinks it’s smart. Too ignorant to be smart. Thinks it’s fun. It’s about as fun as reading the obituary of a child. Thinks it’s original. About as original as the 95th photocopy of a not really funny meme stuck to the office notice board. Django Django. So clever - if you’re in year 9 and a tortured poet. Otherwise go listen to Django Reinhardt. Must listen? If it was the last album on earth I’d give up music.
Uninteresting and uninspired. Felt like I was listening to an album entirely composed of advertisement or background video game music. The better moments came when the group tried to play actual melodies, but the reliance on EDM-esque droning beats really made this a bad album in my opinion
Not my style.
Not for me
All of charm of music from a Toyota commercial.
1. intro - 0 2. hail bop - 1.5 3. default - 0 4. fire - 1.5 5. uuave - 0 6. zumm - 0 7. man - 1 8. dart - 0 9. uuor - 1.5 10. ztorm - 1 11. beach - 1 12. cairo - 1 13. rayz - 1
Well…..I listened. While I did not hate this album - it was just not for me. At times it sounded futuristic, other times it sounded amateurish, and still other times the harmonies reminded me of a band from the 1960s. Odd combination. Pass.
If the Beach Boys sucked, this is what they would make.
Terrible!!
Not sure how this album makes it on the list
Not for me.
Thats a lot of Django. For my money, this is a skip and a half.
Auch nicht meins
Sounded like soundtrack to kids cartoon or a video game background.
Meh. Just didn't really register with me at all.
Suger... saknar liv och glädje... tråkigt
Django Django's 2012 debut album, released alongside indie classics like Celebration Rock, Attack on Memory, and State Hospital, appears a bit lackluster. Despite initially warming up to Default, overexposure in a car advert has left me feeling bored. In comparison to other albums from that era, it doesn't stand out, making it one of the few Scottish-founded indie bands that I don't find appealing. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 0.5 (It was great until boredom kicked in) STAND OUT TRACK - None
Blah. I'm running out of ways to eloquently state how much I dislike an album on this list.
A bit too trippy for me…
Too much computer
I don't know what to do with this. It's about 1/4 for me but it also fell off way into the background.
Firmly ensconced in a Pitchfork-baiting Bermuda Triangle between Local Natives, Beck, and the Beta Band, everything here is played and arranged to the nth degree, but nothing stays. I’m not particularly sure why this is an album one must hear before one dies; I’m not even sure if I listened to it at all, since each song sounds like the next and I can’t remember listening to it.
Could have done without this snooze fest.
Monotonous at best, not really my type of music
Osittain ihan kiinnostava mutta suurilta osin ihan sietämättömän ärsyttävä (esim. Default ja Waveform kappaleet). Kiinnostavuus nousee jostain tollasesta polyrytmisyydestä jossa on promille talking headsia. Harvoin on näin ärsyttävää levyä. Se varmaan tekee tästä jotenkin poikkeuksellisen ja olennaisen. 1/5