Doveland invokes a place of pastoral calm, perhaps a lost corner of the American plains where folk songs might drift across the landscape. Django Django’s sixth album does eventually find its way there, but it takes a surprisingly circuitous route. Song titles like “Meteorite”, “Quicksand”, and “So Heavy” suggest something darker and more muscular. Yet just as the album seems ready to settle into heavy rock, Django Django take it somewhere stranger.
“Meteorite” culminates in a wash of space rock; “Quicksand” is built around an atonal piano motif; and “So Heavy” eventually gives way to delicate, almost jazz-like flute, and beneath it all, the drumming is frequently more jazz-inflected than the straightforward rock arrangements…

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