Kevin Bronson on August 15th, 2012

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Django Django sound like the best of two decades, wrapped up in one kaleidoscopic package. The quartet of David Maclean (drummer, producer and brother of the Beta Band’s John), singer-guitarist Vincent Neff, bassist Jimmy Dixon and synth man Tommy Grace met in art school in Edinburgh and began their psychedelic adventures in London. Their self-titled debut album – out in January overseas and finally arriving Sept. 12 in the U.S. – manages to fuse the harmony-rich warmth of the 1960s (we don’t throw around comparisons to these guys, but they fit here) with the arty electronica of the 1980s in a way that sounds neither obsequious or slathered in excess. The foursome [who made one of our SXSW walkabouts worthwhile last March] have gone where legions of currently fashionable laptop-toting electro acts intended and emerged with heads held high. Maybe it’s something about having songs. Brilliant. They visit Los Angeles for the first time next month.

||| Stream: “Hail Bop,” “Default” and “Storm”:

||| Live: Django Django perform at It’s a School Night at Bardot on Sept. 24 and the Echo on Sept. 26.

Photo by Joss McKinley

||| Also: After the jump, check out the trippy video for “Hail Bop”: