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Sunday 05 November 2023

Django Django Gear Up For Date @ Brighton's Mutations Festival With Release Of Album Highlight Black Cadillac

Following the success of fifth album, Off Planet, and prior to a live outing at Brighton's Mutations Festival, Django Django have released a new video for the genre-bending album highlight, Black Cadillac.

Opening with an addictive drum beat and bassline, Black Cadillac features Vincent Neff's fuzzy layered vocals dancing atop grooving guitars and jazzy brass solos.

Accompanied by a new James Hankin-directed music video, Django Django explore Off Planet's inspirations of ufology amidst nostalgic fish-eye visuals.

Speaking of the video, producer and drummer Dave Maclean said: 

"I came up with this idea out of the blue one day, probably in a bit of a daydream when listening back to the song. 

"I approached Hankin to help me bring it to life and he"s done a great job directing it, managing to capture the surreal dream-like atmosphere brilliantly."


Video director James Hankin, who shot the film in Tottenham around the band's studio and local pub, Mannions, spoke further about the collaboration: 

"I've been following the Djangos pretty much since day one and always thought it would be cool to make a video together at some point and here we are many years later messing about dressing up as cowboys and aliens and drinking out of shoes. 

"It felt like a very natural thing to be doing actually."

Released in four parts, each representing a different "planet", Off Planet is the biggest, boldest, and most varied statement the band have made, with a cavalcade of mainstream and underground stars – Self Esteem, Jack Peñate, Stealing Sheep, Toya Delazy and many more, all of them either friends of the band or personally sought out by Dave – bringing entirely new creative angles into play. 

Django Django play Brighton's Mutations Festival on Sunday 5th November 2023. CLICK HERE for tickets.

by: Mike Cobley




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