Django Django: Born Under Saturn - review

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Born Under Saturn

(Because Music)

Django Django's follow-up to their Mercury Prize-nominated debut is named after a 1963 art-history book about artistic inspiration and madness.

The London-based band, whose members met at a Scottish art college, are devotees of a musical genre, psychedelia, which has claimed its own share of minds over the decades: Syd Barrett and Brian Wilson are among the many influences upon their busy music.

They touch on dark themes, such as the depiction in "Found You" of Time as a Faustian devil "coming round again to claim/And call in what I owe you". But the shadows are soon chased away.

Songs bounce by Tiggerishly with stomping beats, dreamily chanted vocals, multipart harmonies, peppy riffs and bustling electronic effects. Even the alienated existence outlined in "Life We Know" is made to sound engagingly vibrant.

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