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Marble Skies
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7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for the London-based art-rock band features contributions from Metronomy's Anna Prior and Slow Club's Rebecca Taylor.
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  • Record Label: Ribbon Music
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. DIY Magazine
    Jan 26, 2018
    80
    This album feels purposely written to soundtrack their future barbecues, like they’re just playing what they’d want to dance to. That kind of pure, genuine enthusiasm is always infectious, and ‘Marble Skies’ feels like a joy ride.
  2. Under The Radar
    Jan 31, 2018
    80
    It's full of creative songwriting and risks that mostly pay off.
  3. musicOMH.com
    Feb 5, 2018
    80
    So far so good--and if anything it gets better.
  4. The 405
    Jan 29, 2018
    75
    Just about every song on Marble Skies is successful. The unfortunate outlier is ‘Surface to Air,’ which features Slow Club’s Rebecca Taylor on lead vocals. The second track on the album, it’s a full-length number that feels like an interlude that outstayed its welcome.
  5. Pitchfork
    Jan 25, 2018
    69
    While Marble Skies doesn’t always quite get there, the planets it frantically orbits while awaiting touchdown are worth the journey.
  6. The Skinny
    Jan 22, 2018
    60
    Marble Skies finds difficulty in consolidating each defining element into a smooth blend, leading to a record that’s bookended by heart-stopping tracks with a frustratingly stodgy middle passage.
  7. No Ripcord
    Feb 14, 2018
    60
    Ultimately, Marble Skies is a hopscotch of metamorphosizing sounds that can be rewarding for the most part, but only if you can muster the energy to make it so.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. fonzea
    Dec 3, 2019
    10
    The album really worked for me. Aside from Surface to Air, the overall album is solid and well worth a listening to in it's entirety.
  2. Crazybest123
    Feb 3, 2018
    9
    Similar to their first album, marble skies is something you can put on from from beginning to end, sit back, not worry about the skip, andSimilar to their first album, marble skies is something you can put on from from beginning to end, sit back, not worry about the skip, and enjoy. Tac Tac Toe, Further and Fountains and the exact boppin' groovin' tracks you'd expect from the Djangos. The warm feeling Champagne, will take some of your winter blues away. Sundials, Beam me up and In Your Beat flow seamlessly into each other to create trifecta of songs you will listen to over and over again. Forewarning, you'll be smiling at the end, and you'll play it again.… Expand
  4. christodoulakis
    Feb 1, 2018
    9
    Marble Skies is an album full of positive energy, enthusiasm and creativity!
    Django Django are not afraid of experimenting with various    Marble Skies is an album full of positive energy, enthusiasm and creativity!
    Django Django are not afraid of experimenting with various styles, music types and influences.
    The most interesting thing about the outcome of this initiative is the fun, which is basic element is Pop Music!    … Expand
  5. spleenblatt
    Jan 30, 2018
    8
    Much like their previous album, there are about four very good songs, a couple of almost got it, and the remainder so much auralMuch like their previous album, there are about four very good songs, a couple of almost got it, and the remainder so much aural self-indulgence that seems to be this band's trademark. But that can be forgiven, because the brilliant songs on this album (for mine - Marble Skies, Champagne, Tic-Tac-Toe, Sundials) more than compensate for the stuff that doesn't work. Sundials is the kind of song you wish Brian Wilson had recovered sufficiently to write post his multi-decade cocaine melt-down, and there are tinges of Wilson throughout the melodic structure and harmonies on a few songs. To my ears, this band at its best is a perfect synthesis of the Beach Boys, Devo, Beck, and 90s Manchester trip-pop, a very good thing indeed.… Expand

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