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Release new album "Doveland"

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 'Little Me' ft. Hak Baker lands as the stirring focus track

SELECT ACCLAIM FOR DOVELAND:

“Doveland unfolds with an alchemical, ‘White Album’-like sweep”  UNCUT 9/10

“dream like… a fine addition to their repertoire” The Arts Desk ★★★★ (Disc of the Day)

“a gorgeous, ruminative sixth LP” The Skinny  ★★★★ (Album of the Month)

“ finding fresh possibilities in a musical language that has already passed through several generations” PopMatters ★★★★

 Today, Django Django release their 6th album Doveland (order here).

The album is fast becoming a critics favourite, the evolution in aesthetic and style surprising and beguiling in equal measure. Uncut called the album "a career landmark" while it was awarded Disc of the Day at The Arts Desk and Album of the Month at The Skinny who suggested that "even by [the band's] standards, Doveland represents a major reinvention."

The band play a special release show at Assai record store in Edinburgh tonight, as part of a short run of intimate dates in independent record stores. The show at Assai follows a celebratory night sold-out celebratory performance at Rough Trade East in London on Tuesday, with Liverpool (Jacaranda  - Nov 7th), and Bury (Wax & Beans - Nov 9th) set to follow.

The quartet will also support the release with a UK and European headline tour in February/March 2027 (full details below). 

IMAGE CREDIT: Neil Mersh

Pre-release singles “Year of the Snake” , “Feel Alright ft. Max Pope,” "Dirty Hotel Blues" and "Cameos," offered an initial glimpse into an album that moves between the personal and the surreal, with the band drawing on themes of memory, isolation, loss and the search for somewhere else.

A further highlight of the record is marked by their collaboration with Hak Baker on the affecting ‘Little Me’, written during a meeting between the artists on an Africa Express trip. 

Vincent Neff explains “This was written on the Africa Express Bahidora Album writing trip in the Djangos hotel room in the jungle in Mexico where we’d set up a little ad hoc music studio. Hak & Vinny had been out the night before & everyone seemed in a slightly hungover reflective state. Jim Dixon had been playing a little guitar riff which Hak seized upon, and the lyrics & melodies just flowed out of him - almost in a oner, fully formed, whilst lying on the bed.  It was clear it was a deeply personal song for Hak & one we were happy to let its inner meanings rest with him. Later one of the co producers (Polly) turned off all the backing track & wrote a new score which put it in a totally different vibe. We put that one on the album & the original version as a B side on the 7”. 

Baker states: “Little me is this whole war between me wanting to be a man when I feel like I've been a man my whole life. I wanted to be a kid, but where and how I grew up deleted that option for me and I don’t have that choice anymore. Coming to terms with that is what the song’s about - like it’s alright, I am going to go with who I am at the moment, and where I am at the moment.  And that it’s alright to still feel a bit devastated about how things unfurled - but I’ve no choice but to keep it moving. I used to yearn for pats on the back from friends or loved ones but people don’t treat you how you treat them, so I decided to give myself that pat on the back.  And I’m going to try to keep doing that.”

Doveland was produced during extended sessions in the German countryside and highlands of Scotland, and marks Django Django's most cohesive and emotionally resonant album to date. 

The album takes its title from an online urban myth of a supposedly vanished midwest town called Doveland. Some believe they once lived there and even possess souvenirs as proof, yet Doveland appears on no maps. Explanations range from sinkholes to military experiments to collective amnesia. Most likely, the town never existed at all. While the mysterious settlement is not the direct subject of the album, the idea of searching for an impossible place became the catalyst for the record.

These 12 tracks are also grounded in the lives of those who wrote them, in some of their most challenging experiences. During the years working on Doveland, Maclean lost his older sister, and Jim Dixon lost his father. 

A band celebrated for their boundless invention and a curiosity that has defined them since their Mercury Prize-nominated debut, Django Django have spent more than a decade pushing their sound into unexpected territory. With Doveland, they channel that adventurousness into their most focused statement yet. Dave Mclean offers: “It’s taken me until the age of 46 for us to make a ‘grown-up’ record."

Django Django are:

Dave Maclean, Jim Dixon, Vincent Neff, Tommy Grace

Record Store Dates

6th November – Assai Records, Edinburgh

7th November – Jacaranda, Liverpool

9th November – Wax & Beans, Bury

2027 Headline Tour Dates

23rd February – Hole 44, Berlin

24th February – Kent Club, Hamburg

26th February – Paradiso Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam

27th February – Gaité Lyrique, Paris

28th February – Botanique, Brussels

2nd March – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

3rd March – St Lukes, Glasgow

5th March – New Century Locker, Manchester

6th March – Button Factory, Dublin

8th March - Rough Trade, Liverpool

9th March – Y Plas, Cardiff

11th March – Outernet Live, London

12th March – Trinity, Bristol

13th March – Chalk, Brighton

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